Posted by Joel Fireman on 11/09/07 16:01

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:36:59 +0000, Brendan Gillatt
<brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:

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>Joel Fireman wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:19:11 +0000, Brendan Gillatt
>> <brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> 5.2.x is still in the dev repositories. have a look in
>>> download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/
>>> for one.
>>
>> Thanks - I tried it, but of course, rpm doesn't want to install it -
>> 15 failed dependencies... and they quickly turn circular... I'm afraid
>> the FC 4 is just too old for the new php's, so all I can think of is
>> an upgrade to FC 7. If I can get my amazon p/w found, I'll probably
>> just order a Bible with FC 7 and install that...
>>
>> I sure hope after all this screwing around that the Joomla error
>> really IS a php 5.0.4 problem! Of course, it's too late to go back
>> now, since php is already ruined by the partial install (it might be
>> salvageable if there were a way to add php-mysql to it)...
>>
>> Thanks again, I appreciate the help.
>>
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>Ah, I'm glad I left the red-hat distro world for Debian ;]
>
>Good luck all the same.

Yeah... I was hopeful that yum would take care of these sorts of
problems, but it didn't do much for this one. I suppose that if I knew
exactly what the "official" names (and numbers) of the applicable
packages were, that yum might be able to handle it, but in this case
it was a steady diet of building repositories and then discovering
that either the named package couldn't be found, or it was marked as
being up-to-date. Until "the Linux world" wakes up and realizes that -
my two cents' wirth here - there is a good deal of manipulation going
on in the world of M$ to keep Linux "divided and conquered" we're
going to continue to see these kinds of things happening.

Meantime... if I had plenty of time and resources, I'd likely be
looking at other distros...but right now I'm going on the assumption
that I can install FC 7 on the system without trashing the existing
users' and apps' directories. I'm sticking with FC for now because it
seems that each distro wants to put things in differently-named
directories from the others, and even use different environment
designations. I have a SuSE box at home that is a decent enough
system, but it's a pain sometimes trying to remember where IT wants to
see various programs and data - it's reminiscent of the
keyboard-layout copyright problems, and, of course M$ itself changing
directories and whatnot with each new version, apparently more or less
gratuitously ("I know what! Let's call it 'Documents and Settings'
instead of 'home'!").

Pfui!

But, thanks, again!

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