Hi,

I'm a newbie running RHEL4 on a 64 bit Dell workstation. I'm trying to install hdf5 libraries in support of another piece of custom software. There appear to be a large number of hdf5 rpms available and I'm not sure of the correct one to install. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Download the source rpm from Fedora Core 4 eXTRAS and build them;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...xtras/4/SRPMS/

Lenard,

Thank you for the reply, but as I mentioned, I'm really new to the whole Linux thing. Since I don't know how to build rpms from source code, I did a search on hdf for Fedora 4 hdf rpms and found the following packet: hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.x86_64.rpm

I then ran rpm -Uvh hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.x86_64.rpm.

This returned:

warning: hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.5()(64bit) is needed by hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.x86_64
libssl.so.5()(64bit) is needed by hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.x86_64

searching for libcrypto.so.5()(64bit), I found the following: openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.x86_64.rpm

In trying to open this, I got:

warning: openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT)(64bit) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.x86_64
libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT)(64bit) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.x86_64

and a lot of other dependencies for libcrypto.so.4()(64bit)and libssl.so.4()(64bit)

So, I searched for libcrypto.so.4()(64bit) and found openssl097a-0.9.7.a-3.1.x86_64.rpm

Running this, I received
warning: openssl097a-0.9.7a-3.1.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT)(64bit) is needed by openssl097a-0.9.7a-3.1.x86_64
libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT)(64bit) is needed by openssl097a-0.9.7a-3.1.x86_64
openssl <= 0.9.7a conflicts with openssl097a-0.9.7a-3.1.x86_64

So, this tells me I already have openssl, doesn't it?

I did a search of my system for openssl and found directories in /usr/share/doc, /usr/include, /usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages, and /usr/lib/ruby/1.8, and an executable in /usr/bin.

So I obviously have a version of this preinstalled. If that is the case, then why am I getting the failed dependencies and conflicts? I guess I should mention that I'm trying to install this in /usr/local, but that shouldn't make a difference, should it?

Thanks for any help.

That is why I said build the binary package from the source rpm package, so it will build for RHEL4. You have RHEL4, you should use up2date and maybe:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packag...ment/YumOnRHEL
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

to satisfy the dependencies required when building the binary package.

Building binary rpm's is not that hard, you will need to have the rpm-build package installed then it can be as simple as;

rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'dist .el4' hdf5-1.6.5-4.fc4.src.rpm

Watch the ouput, you will see where the binary rpm package is built to at the end, the default location is /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 is this case.