why not just get the source for both and rebuild them yourself, you can even use checkinstall to add them to your rpm database mark
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:41, you wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 22:20, mike wrote: > > On Monday 26 November 2001 20:43, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Monday 26 November 2001 09:24 pm, skidley wrote: > > > > I have both libpng2 and libpng3 installed here, there is no need to > > > > force an update they are 2 different libraries. > > > > > > Search 'libpng' on http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker > > > and I believe you might come around to thinkin this is sor'ta kind'a > > > a naive notion ... you just haven't found out what you broke yet ;) > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > I hope this is not true, distinct versions of a library coexisting > > together is what makes Linux a more stable operating system, and avoids > > dll-hell. The application should call for libpng.so.3 or some such. > > > > mg > > In theory, I agree with you, however in this particular case it seems > that the theory does not pan out. Since I originally started this > thread, I will tell you the solution someone else gave me: > > 1. Get the Mozilla RPM for RedHat 7.x and install/upgrade it. > 2. I got a conflict with some library which I don't remember, but I > forced the install anyway with --force. > 3. Get the Galeon RPM for RedHat 7.x and install/upgrade it. > 4. Enjoy! These versions were compiled for libpng2, and so they work > fine. > > Dave -- 1:46pm up 10:41, 4 users, load average: 2.76, 1.59, 0.81
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