Re: trouble installing swarm on redhat

[Paul E Johnson]

The RH system is pretty good, and tracking their updates is an important 
part of the RH experience

The binutils error you got was due to the fact that you have not updated 
your system with the rpms that RedHat makes available. I run autorpm to 
do chores like that, but redhat has a program up2date for it, and the 
Ximian distribution of gnome has a killer app called red-carpet for it.

You  don't say below which binutils you got, but maybe it was not 
correct. The up-to-date package is

# rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.11.90.0.8-12

If you start with an all the way up-to-date, with the right binutils and 
gcc3 from RH, just do this:

Get:
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/miscSupportSoftware/hdf5-1.4.3-1RH72.i386.rpm

Install hdf5-1.4.3 with

#rpm -Uvh hdf5-1.4.3-1RH72.i386.rpm

And then install this swarm (for objc support):

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.2/swarm-2.1.132.20020309-1Arch.i386.rpm

#rpm -Uvh swarm-2.1.132.20020309-1Arch.i386.rpm


Don't mess around with gcc until you learn your way around the system 
better. You don't need it to use the rpms I provide.  You only need it 
to build swarm itself.  This Swarm I'm providing is almost exactly as 
nature intended, except I include a patch that provides lisp archiving 
for Arrays, and it works for me and I expect it will work for you, and 
eventually I hope it will go into Swarm itself.

Other RPM dependencies you might hit along the way

blt
XFree86-devel
glibc-devel

A standard workstation install does not include many devel packages.

good luck, write me if there is trouble. I've seen just about everything 
by now.


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