hi,
someone please help!!! rpm hell. i know this might be a simple problem
but:
i can't install
opal-3.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm because i cannot get installed glibc-
common-2.4-4.x86_64.rpm.

i get the following conflict: glibc < 2.4 conflicts with glibc-
common-2.4-4.x86_64. forcing or replace files does not work either.

if i try to install the newer glibc i get:
glibc-common = 2.4-4 is needed by glibc-2.4-4.x86_64
glibc > 2.3.4 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.4-2.x86_64

i am really stuck and very very frustrated. i installed compat-
glibc-2.3.2-95.30.x86_64.rpm as i thought this would allow all those
packages reliant on the old version to work while allowing for the new
one but this has made no diference. please help!!!!

i am using red hat enterprise linux 4, trying to install the latest version of Gnomemeeting(its called ekiga now).

What I would do is find the source rpm of that rpm.( *.src.rpm ). Where it is stored at run the command as root ' rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile *.src.rpm. If it completes it will be in /usr/src/redhat/i386/RPMS or the noarch section. Reason is some of these rpm are built with the latest of files and then that newly built rpm uses the builders current system files as a reference for needed files. Does not work for all. Some do have specfic version software.

Only other way is find the source and build it from that. If the source contains a spec file then you can use that to build the rpm with.

Brian1

hi brian,
thanks for your quick reply. i will give that a try.
regards,
jon

i have managed to install as per the suggestio but now i have a new error when i try to run the installed application. i get the following error when i execute the prgram from the shell (excuting from the gnome menu does nothing.

[root@localhost bin]# ./ekiga
./ekiga: symbol lookup error: ./ekiga: undefined symbol: gtk_file_chooser_button_new_with_backend

please, any ideas? i think i spent perhaps 4 hrs trying to install this software now.