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
> 


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