Re: [Plplot-general] install problems

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

IMPORTANT.  Martin, please forget all my previous replies on and off list.
You downloaded an old version of an rpm that is not at all suitable for
Mandrake 8.0.  My apologies for not recognizing that sooner.

Stop and start over with no plplot, your original Mandrake libgd libraries,
and no symlinks.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915.
Read the release notes for plplot-5.0.3-4.i386.rpm by clicking on the
associated 5.0.3 link on that page.

"This is a binary rpm of PLplot version 5.0.3 that is suitable for RedHat
7.1." That means it is *not* suitable for any other distribution including
Mandrake.  Also 5.0.3 is dated.  Use 5.0.4 instead which is the only one we
support. Click on those release notes (e.g., the 5.0.4 link) and you will
see

"plplot-5.0.4-3mdk.i686.rpm   binary rpm for Mandrake 8.0"

That is the one you should choose, and I believe all your troubles will be
over.

I am putting this on list because it is an object lesson to read the release
notes at sourceforge before downloading.

I also have to say you put everything I needed to know (the rpm package name)
in your original post, but I missed it.  Sorry again.

Alan

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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, M. Frankford wrote:

> 
> [root@]# rpm -i plplot-5.0.3-4.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libgd.so.1.8   is needed by plplot-5.0.3-4