First of all, I wrote you twice please seek help through proper mailing list. If you are unwilling to respect the contributors wishes, I might end-up enforcing the mailing list rules by entirly banning your e-mail address to my personal accounts.
By no means I spend several hours per week to support various open source projects, and in return get annoyed by users who do not respect requests. I do not have a software tech-support department. If you insists on getting direct support then for those users I would charge $1500 per day to have them up and running and fix their Operating system. What are you doing is crealy shows your NO knowledge of a UNIX system. RedHat 6.2 is not a vanilla OS. It is an excellent OS. You need to get a book on UNIX and learn how to make symbolic links. Also there are commands options called --nodeps and --force for RPMS. Get a book on RPM too or read about it www.rpm.org Suhaib > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Stern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:51 AM > To: Suhaib Siddiqi > Subject: troubles running opendx > > > hi, suhaib, > > can you help me? i cannot get your opendx-4.1.0-1.i386.rpm dx > executable to run on my machine. > > i downloaded opendx-4.1.0-1.i386.rpm and opendx-4.1.0-1.i386.rpm, > and installed them. i have a vanilla redhat 6.2 with all updates > installed, and the current gcc / egcs compilers for this > distribution. yet dx does not run "out of the box": there seem to > be several problems: > > 1) cannot run dx > > ================================================================ > % dx > /usr/local/dx/bin_linux/startupui: error in loading shared > libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory > ================================================================ > > i am guessing (only via some creative lookups with rpm) that this > is a c++ library that does not come with the standard RH6.2 > distribution? > > where would i get it? i did not see this in the README for rh6.. > > 2) cannot get sgi-opengl to install: > > ================================================================ > % rpm -ivh sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm > file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so from install of sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 > conflicts with file from package Mesa-3.2-2 > file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so from install of sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 > conflicts with file from package Mesa-3.2-2 > file /usr/X11R6/include/GL/gl.h from install of > sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 conflicts with file from package > Mesa-devel-3.2-2 > file /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glu.h from install of > sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 conflicts with file from package > Mesa-devel-3.2-2 > file /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glut.h from install of > sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 conflicts with file from package > Mesa-devel-3.2-2 > file /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glx.h from install of > sgi-opengl-1.2.1-1 conflicts with file from package > Mesa-devel-3.2-2 > % > ================================================================ > > yet if i try to remove the Mesa rpm: > > ================================================================ > % rpm -e Mesa Mesa-devel > error: removing these packages would break dependencies: > libGL.so.1 is needed by xmms-1.0.1-4 > libGL.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-3.23-2 > libGLU.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-3.23-2 > % > ================================================================ > > and i certainly don't want to remove these things. will i be > fine with Mesa? > > If not, how can I get the sgi stuff on and the Mesa stuff off > without confusing the RPM system? > > > 3) do i have the right ImageMagick? > > I could not find a location for the latest ImageMagick-5.1.1 from > your README, so I got my copy (via an altavista search on > "ImageMagick 5.1.1 rpm") from > http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/doors2.3/ImageMagick-5.1.1-1.i386.html. > Have no idea if this is the right one. Where did you get yours? > > Thanks for any help you can provide, > Jeff Stern > > -- > jeff stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~jstern/jeff.html > "A great part of courage is having done the thing before." Emerson
