Hello,

Let me first say that I am a newb and I am likely to ask some pretty stupid questions here, but I am just totally confused.

This topic may fit better under "Software", if you think so, tell me and I'll repost there.

OK here we go....

I am attempting to install Simple DirectMedia Library on a Red Hat Enterprise box version 2.6.9-5ELsmp

I d/l SDL-1.2.12-1.i36.rpm and double clicked. The package manager reports the following:

Unlocatable Packages Required by
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) SDL 1.2.12

So far, so good.... I can see how this would be a requirement.

So I locate and d/l glibc-2.4-4.i386.rpm and run the package manager which reports:

Unlocatable Packages Required by
glibc-common glibc 2.4

Again, I can make sense out of this.

Since glibc-common didn't reference a version number I would assume that 2.4 would be the "most compatable" with GLIBC_2.4 so I locate and d/l glibc-common-2.4-4.i386.rpm. Run the package manager with this file and I get:

Unlocatable Packages Required by
glibc glibc-common


WTF???

So I have a recursive requirement??? glibc needs glibc-common which needs glibc????

Should it be this complicated to install SDL or am I just a total idiot....

Also, I have seen 'yum' before but it does not seem to exist on my Red Hat install. Should it be? Is that a better approach?

Please, some advice would be appreciated. I don't expect to be spoon-fed, but a little guidance would be most welcome!

Thanks in advance,

-reverb-

You've probably gotten your answer by now, but I actually encountered the same problem.

The packages require eachother...so they need to be installed together.

I use Ubuntu, so i did "apt-get install package1 package2 package3"


What i was doing wrong, was trying to install each one, one at a time.