Posted by Ben on 09/28/05 01:17

Chris Boget said the following on 09/27/05 14:41:

> I'm running a freshly installed Redhat 9, kernel version 2.4.20. Well,
> at least
> that's what rpm is reporting though I know the up2date utility (supposedly)
> updated my kernel as well.
>
> Has anyone else had problems similar to this? If so, how did you end up
> resolving those problems? Alternately, if anyone has an idea on what I can
> do next, it would be most appreciative. My limited experience with Linux
> in general and RedHat in particular has me at the end of my rope.

If it's any consolation, just about everyone who has dealt with rpm
packages has also experienced "dependency hell". It isn't fun, and it's
been known to put a smirk on debian users' faces.

It sounds like the libxml2 package you are trying to install is built
for a different distribution. rpmfind.net is your friend:

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/dag/redhat/9/i386/libxml2-2.6.16-1.0.rh9.rf.i386.html

You can also build from source.

As an aside, if this is a new install and you're not too far down the
set-up path you may want to reconsider your choice of RH9 as it is no
longer supported by RH and as such there are no security updates being
released by RH for it which will mean extra admin overhead in order to
keep the machine secure. You may wish to look at RHEL, Fedora or CentOS
distros if you want to stick with a RH based distro (although fedora has
a quick update cycle that may make it unacceptable for server use). At
the very least you should check out the fedora legacy project
(http://www.fedoralegacy.org/) which releases security fixes for RH9 and
older Fedora versions.

If you have any more questions on this feel free to email me off list
since this is not really php related.

- Ben

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