[vlc] Re: Problem loading this software

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Tom,

The RPM packages for vlc-0.8.0 that are the website are built 
specifically for RH9 and Fedora Core 1/2. Between those RedHat 
distributions and RedHat 8 a lot of differences on Linux kernel and libc 
(glibc) library exists. In other words do not try them for your RedHat 8.0.

I think you have the following options:
1) Use a VLC version that has RPM's build for RedHat 8.0 (probably VLC 
version 0.6.0)
2) Upgrade your system to RedHat 9/Fedore Core 2
3) Built VLC from the source code yourself (including all depedent 
libraries).


Tom Wilson wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I cannot get this software to load on my RH 8.0 build. Your page 
> indicates that everything should load fine, but it doesn’t.
>
> After the first attempt the RPMs failed due to dependencies from the 
> following glibc:
>
> 2.2.93.
>
> When I loaded glibc-2.2.93 (which was successful) and reran the vlc 
> RPMs (several from your download section) the failures where based on 
> the following failures:
>
> Lack of glibc -2.3.XX. So I downloaded glibc-2.3.XX and tried to load 
> it. It overwrote the glibc 2.2.93 files. So when I tried ot load vlc 
> again, I got the original dependencies. So what is the problem here? 
> Am I just overlooking something? What is the best way to get this 
> loaded? BTW I tried to load version 0.5.0 and 6 I believe since I 
> heard they were the best for RH 8.0.
>
>
Changing the glibc library on your RedHat 8 system is not very wise. The 
whole distribution (including the kernel) is tied to you glibc library. 
Now you need to restore the original glibc on your system, which is not 
easy unless you forcefully overwrite the libraries with: rpm -ivh 
--nodep --force glibc-xxxx.rpm
Use the original glibc for RedHat 8.0.

> Any help would be great. I’m presently trying to download apt-get and 
> try it that way. But I need to confirm these dependencies go away first!
>


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Many greetings,
     Jean-Paul Saman

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