[vlc] Re: vlc install under Red Hat, failed dependencies

[Bruce Hutfless]

Your are right. Checked with Red Hat and still no fix.

Red Hat busy with their Enterprise version/distro.

Sorry.

Regards,

Bruce Hutfless

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 13:00, Les LaZar wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Hutfless" <bhutfless at covad.net>
> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:24 PM
> Subject: [vlc] Re: vlc install under Red Hat, failed dependencies
> 
> 
> > Les,
> >
> > Couple of things. GLibc is one of several libraries that is generally
> > also sync'd with the gcc.
> >
> > The gcc is the compiler used to create executables from source code, and
> > by current Linux version standards, RH Linux 8.0 is becoming very dated.
> > Unless you are a software developer/programmer and are prepared to deal
> > with all of the dependencies of gcc/glibc, then I would try to upgrade
> > just the compiler/libraries.  Because of the naming convention for
> > glibc, you may be creating other problems.
> >
> > Instead, I would recommend upgrading to RH Linux 9.0 which can be
> > downloaded from RH or one of the many mirror sites.  For newbies, and
> > non-developer users it is easier to just upgrade to a newer version.
> >
> > That;s my recommendation to you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bruce Hutfless
> >
> ==========================================================
> Bruce,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Actually, I have already tried to get RH9
> running on my system,
> without success.  The 2-disk RH9 distro that came with the book RED HAT
> LINUX 9 by Jang
> has a known bug in the bootloader that chokes on my VIA C3 cpu.  The problem
> was discussed
> in a bugzilla note from last March, but I have not been able to obtain a
> fix.  Might you be able to
> direct me to one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Les
> 

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