On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 00:12, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Another little present from Red Hat :-) It's impossible to get rid > > of these, as there are chains of dependencies a yard long, including > > virtually every utility on the system. How did you overcome this? > > You don't :-) > > Instead you manually download the latest libxml2 and libxslt from > ftp://xmlsoft.org/ and install the *tarballs* manually. Note: don't > install the RPMs.
But how do I get rid of the libxml2 and libxslt RPMs that are already installed without leaving me with a broken dependency? I can of course use --force, but that's pretty unclean. I'm still baffled as to how the OP managed to proceed: he must have had the same RPMs installed as I do, as they are embedded in RH's default install. > Then try the XML::LibXML via CPAN route. If that doesn't work, download it > from CPAN and try a manual install with DEBUG=1 passed in, so we can see > why it fails. OK. > Sorry this has become such a hassle for you, but I assure you it *is* Red > Hat's fault. I never doubted that :-) > The reason you'll find Java stuff easier is because Sun > invested millions of dollars to make sure of that. Java itself is fine. Java apps tend to require very specific versions, which is why I ended up on my last machine with 5 copies of Java :-) ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
