On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 20:40, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Thanks, downloaded it and it works, but now that lib asks me to > provide 'libc.so.6' from glibc 2.3 (glibc 2.25 is installed ver). > glibc source is a 12MB download from gnu.org, followed by cranial > splitting compile/make/install BS...I'm a newbie and DON"T NEED THIS > EXTRA CRAP!
Please don't shout at us, it's not good nettiquette. > Can't I just grab the binary from somewhere?! Thats all I need, > NOT THE WHOLE FREAKING TWELVE MEGABYTES! :^( Rpmfind doesn't have > a recent version of it... > > As software develops more and more, I feel more and more as though > I'll be required to update EVERYTHING on my system just so the > damn dependencies don't fail. Is this common on linux systems? If you try to install from a binary file like a deb or an rpm which does not come from the distribution which you have installed on your computer you are courting disaster as you have just discovered. To get, compile and install a working, i.e. not-beta, package form source is very simple., vis:- wget http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/distfiles/celestia-1.2.4.tar.gz --21:06:47-- http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/distfiles/celestia-1.2.4.tar.gz => `celestia-1.2.4.tar.gz' Connecting to linux.citylink.co.nz:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10,280,646 [application/x-tar] That proves the address is correct, 10 megs on a modem will take you about 30 mins. It's in Wellington so you will go at full speed at this time of day. tar xvzf celestia-1.2.4.tar.gz cd celestia-1.2.4 ./configure You may be told about packages which you haven't installed yet. You'll just have to install them. make su -c 'make install' celestia It _really_ is as simple as that! Linux _is_ different, you'll just have to get used to that fact. -- C. S.
