Re: Anyone here install Java Studio Creator with CentOS 4?

[me at prestoncrawford.com (Preston Crawford)]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 13:08 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> Instead of wrecking systems with random symlinks trying to meet
> compatible versions of things, why not do "yum provides filename" and
> see if it is available to you.
> 
> yum list "compat*" yeilds several packages that might be what you're
> looking for.

You learn something every day. I had never used that command. Thanks.

That yielded compat-libstdc++-296.i386. 

Is that something you can install along side the other compat-libstdc++-
X versions without any harm to the system?

Also, and I know this may be headed into "best practices territory" what
is the preferred method? To install libraries you don't need because
someone hard-coded a reference to a library or to just do the symlink.
That's not meant to be rhetorical or flippant. I really am curious and
not sure which approach is best practice.

Thanks for the tip either way, though.

Preston