Old libc and Red Hat 7.2

[Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:42 am, John Oliver wrote:
> More weirdness... I just tried to install the package myself to get
> first-hand knowledge of what's going on.  It fails looking for
> libstdc++.so.5, but compat-libstdc++ *is* installed.  There has to be
> some other package somewhere for compatibility.

On a system where this _is_ working:

1) verify which library files your application depends on (via ldd or rpm)
2) verify which packages provide those files (rpm -qf <path/to/file>)
3) install those packages on the non-everything rh7.2 installation.

A very simple example, then...  What packages to I need to install if I want 
to install bash?  This is the ldd way of finding out:

gkade at gopher(pts/2):~ 21 > which bash
/bin/bash
gkade at gopher(pts/2):~ 22 > ldd /bin/bash
        libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x006ca000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00452000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x002f3000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x002db000)
gkade at gopher(pts/2):~ 23 > rpm -qf /lib/libc.so.6
glibc-2.3.2-101.4


A slightly more complex example.  What packages does gzip require?

gkade at gopher(pts/2):~ 45 > rpm -q --requires gzip
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/sbin/install-info
less
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
mktemp
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
gkade at gopher(pts/2):~ 46 > rpm -q --whatprovides 'libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)'
glibc-2.3.2-101.4


It'll take a little work, but you should end up with a complete list of 
packages that your application requires.

Gregory

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Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <gkade at bigbrother.net>
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