On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 00:28, Daisuke Maki wrote: > > 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. > > Really? Why? (just curious) > I haven't had problems with it... (of course, the fact that I'm still > running RH8 may have something to do with it)
Quite possibly. > >>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 get those erros because you try to uninstall them and break the > dependencies... I usually just do this: > > 1) get rpms for libxml2, libxml2-devel, libxslt, libxslt-devel But why would I want to do this when they're already installed and there is no higher version available? > 2) do > > # change filenames where appropriate... > rpm -ivh libxml2-blah.rpm libxml2-devel-blah.rpm libxslt-blah.rpm > libxslt-devel-blah.rpm Surely rpm -Uvh? But why reinstall them? ///Peter > > 3) recompile XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT, either from CPAN or source > > ...and I haven't got any problems. > > apologies if I'm really off. > > --d > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
