[plug] Dependency probs.

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Thu Oct 3 07:18:49 WST 2002


A trick that oftem worked with th likes of OO is to symlink your
existing libc.so to the name the application wants.  Doesnt always work,
but maybe ...

You could also search for the src rpm (there are a number of them on
rpm.org) and rebuild it.

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:52, Richard wrote:
> I am trying to install a backend for sane that is compatible with my canon 
> parallel port scanner. In the README it is said that  
> libieee1284-0.2.3-0.1.i386.rpm (or src) is required, but when I try and 
> install it it claims to need libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3). The very latest version of 
> glibc I have been able to track down is 2.2.5-25, but this does not do the 
> trick. I have searched on glibc-2.3 and libc.so.6 (in a number of different 
> places) and both get results that are at best confusing. I'm almost certainly 
> missing something painfully obvious, so if someone could just give me a nudge 
> in the right direction It would be appreciated. Thanks.
> Richard
> 
> 




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