[ILUG] Dependencies

[david jamison]

P at draigBrady.com wrote:

> david jamison wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to install Qt from Scratch on a Red Hat 9.0 box.  To 
>> do this I need to also install GCC and GLIBC so working from RPMfind 
>> I choose gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm and glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm as they 
>> are both for RH9.
>>
>> GLIBC installs fine.
>>
>> GCC gives a dependency of glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12.  So RPMfind gives 
>> me glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm for RH 9 which in turn gives a 
>> dependency for kernel-headers >=2.2.1 again RPMfind gives me 
>> kernel-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm which is a 13MB file for RH9 so im 
>> assuming this is an entire updated kernel? When this is installed 
>> glibc-devel still wants the kernel-headers >=2.2.1.
>>
>> So question is where did I go wrong?
>
>
> What said kernel-headers? I would think you need glibc-kernheaders
> as the following run on a rh9 system shows:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep headers
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10
>
 From the top;

rpm -ivh gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
error:failed dependancies:
       glibc-devel >=2.2.90-12 is needed by gcc-3.2.2-5
rpm -ivh glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
error:failed dependancies:
        kernel-headers is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
        kernel-headers >= 2.2.1 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm

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