Re: A RH package won't work on Debian
On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote:
> Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian
This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely
work right on RH.
> I borrowed a laptop with vanilla RH 6.2, and brought it home, and it
> works fine. Also if I boot my system into Windows and use the Windows
> version of the VPN client, that works fine. I can even open up a
> Windows session in VMWare on my Linux system and use the Windows client
> through that, and _that_ works!
They probably have it compiled in some different version of whatever
libraries it uses than you use. Or it's being anal retentive and only
going by the (brain-damaged) Red Hat locations for files from other
packages it depends on.
> I know it's an almost impossible long shot, but maybe someone here can
> give me some ideas of what to try or where to look?
I know that problem sometimes develops on Windows boxen when AIM, YIM,
AOL, Morpheus, or pretty much any other POS program decides to screw
with the winsocks, but that can't happen here...
--
Baloo
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