Re: [Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> Alex:  I don't know what to say as regards my system being buggered

I think I was only saying that in the case of you removing the rpm and it
still not working? Is that actually the case with your system?

> I can only assume that Caldera's RPM put things in the "wrong" place? 
> (Sorry about the techy-speak there). 

Mmmm, possible, but it shouldn't do. Although, an rpm designed for Caldera
probably shouldn't be used with SuSE type systems. I still maintian the
best way to do it is to get the source code and install it properly ;))

> And that the RPM from SuSE was designed for use with 6.4, though I can't
> imagine for one second the difference between 6.2 and 6.4 to be that
> great? 

The idea about version numbers is that you can't assume anything about the
differences ;)) The quite often are differences, and while they may not be
major, they don't have to be major for things to stop working!

> Is there some compatibility problem with certain libraries involving
> this libjpeg/6.2/6.4 that I'm not aware of?

There shouldn't be, no. Although, there could be ;). To be honest, I
don't use the rpm system myself, I find it to be a little bit of a blunt
tool. 

Cheers,

Alex.


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