[Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello Alex,

On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote:
> 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?

Nope, everything's fine now.
 
> > 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 ;))
 
Yes, I'd agree.  But the one I downloaded was far too complex for the likes of
me.  And I can't seem to locate another. 

> > 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 ;)) There 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. 

Ooh, maybe sometime in the future I'd have the skills/knowledge to be able to
write something like that!  And no, I'm not being at all sarcastic - I really
do.

Thanks for all your help.

Harvey


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