On Wed 14 Jul 2004 at 12:15:38, Topher Fischer said:
> I just decided to attempt to "upgrade" Gimp on my
> machine (which I guess is just the same as installing
> from scratch).  I'm running RH9, but I could only find
> an RPM for Fedora Core 1.  I didn't think it was the
> right one for me, but I got it and tried it anyway,
> but was then faced with a long list of dependencies
> that need to be taken care of first.

You could just get a Fedora Core CD and upgrade your RedHat distribution
with it.  If that's not an option, then try getting the source RPM (SRPM)
from the Fedora Core 1 site and using 'rpmbuild --rebuild' (I think that's
what it's called) to make an RPM for Red Hat 9.  You may need to do the same
trick with some of the dependencies.

Dependency nightmares like this are the whole reason I use Gentoo: no binary
packages, so far fewer library problems.

-- 
Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/
"Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but
unfortunately they always start running in the same direction."
                                                  -- Art Buchwald

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