Hi !
Thank you for your email
>Well... Can't you still find which RPM's to install.... And when you know
>that... Just download it from a server that does have it... Or did I
>completely missunderstand you???
It is that i wanted to install LICQ and i needed for that a
libstdc++.so.2.9, i only had the libstdc++.so.2.8. From rufus i downloaded
the packages to update and it still didn't work. The reason is that i then
had a file called libstdc++.2.9 that is the same as a libstdc++.so.s.9,
just has a different name. After finding out how to softlink stuff it
finally worked (btw it works also with softlinking to so.2.8 ).
This took me about three weeks and i had to bug many people for sth stupid
like a different filename.
Besides that i always run into trouble every time i want to install sth.
Something is always missing and then i download the missing package, want
to install it and then it reuires sth else, so i get that and that can't be
installed because it only runs with version 4.8 and i have 4.7 and so on
and so on.
To me it would be great help if the programmers add a reliable source
where to get EVERYTHING besides a working kernel to run this program. I
don't mind downloading and installing stuff, although we have to pay
tremendous money for local calls here in germany. I go thorugh that if
stuff would work in the end, but mostly it doesn't. Besides that if an rpm
or a config calls for a missing file lib.abc.sdc++.2.78 how do i found out
in which package it is ? Do i have to download any package that has a 2.78
or a sdc++ in it ? Mostly names of packages don't have anything in common
with the files in them. How shall i found that out ?
It is not a prob for me anymore to find an rpm if i know the name, but it
is if i don't know it and if it is not on my CDs of my distribution. The
Linux community has to work on that dumb and stupid problem immediately if
they want to enter the private user group as it was said on the last
official Linux meetings.
Installing Linux software was the only thing that made me so mad that i
didn't switch on my puters for days - and that is very very unusual for me.
But now any problems i had are either solved or worked around - except the
StarOffice 5.1.
Greez
Dave
