Hi all, Not sure where this should be posted, so forgive me if I'm posting it in the wrong place. I'm trying to use Bioperl with RedHat Enterprise Linux v3. RedHat provides gd v1.8, however bioperl requires > 2.something. So, I downloaded gd 2.0.33 and rebuilt it using a spec file I found from verion 2.0.16 (I think). When I tried upgrading the package using: [root@hydrogen i386]# rpm -Uvh gd-2.0.33-1.i386.rpm gd-devel-2.0.33-1.i386.rpm I get the error: error: Failed dependencies: libgd.so.1.8 is needed by (installed) glibc-utils-2.3.2-95.30 If I do a 'ls -lp /usr/lib/libgd*', I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212978 Jun 17 2003 /usr/lib/libgd.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 7 13:23 /usr/lib/libgd.so -> libgd.so.1.8.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 7 13:23 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 -> libgd.so.1.8.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 7 13:23 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8 -> libgd.so.1.8.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183332 Jun 17 2003 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8.4 If I do a 'rpm -qpl gd-2.0.33-1.i386.rpm', I get: /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8 /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0 /usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.33 /usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.33/README-JPEG.TXT /usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.33/README.TXT /usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.33/entities.html /usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.33/index.html Here is the spec file I'm using (minus some unnecessary stuff). Any ideas? Summary: A graphics library for quick creation of PNG, GIF or JPEG images. Name: gd Version: 2.0.33 Release: 1 URL: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ Source0: http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-%{version}.tar.gz License: BSD-style Group: System Environment/Libraries BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root Prereq: /sbin/ldconfig BuildPrereq: freetype-devel, libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel, zlib-devel %define shlibver %(echo %{version} | cut -f-2 -d.) %prep %setup -q %build ./configure --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr make %install [ "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make install (cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib && ln -s libgd.so.2.0.0 libgd.so.1) (cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib && ln -s libgd.so.2.0.0 libgd.so.1.8) rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libgd.la %clean [ "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %post -p /sbin/ldconfig %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig %files %defattr(-,root,root) %doc README.TXT README-JPEG.TXT index.html entities.html %{_libdir}/*.so.* %files progs %defattr(-,root,root) %{_bindir}/* %files devel %defattr(-,root,root) %{_includedir}/* %{_libdir}/*.so %{_libdir}/*.a ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list