[Esd-l] Red Hat 9...

[John D. Hardin]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Brad wrote:

> Hi again John. Thanks again for your input.
> 
> gcc was not installed and so I attempted to install it, only to be
> met with dependency requirements. When I tried to install those as
> well, I had more denendencies. So I tried to install those and
> they required even more dependencies: kernel-headers - which is
> not available for Red Hat 9.
> 
> Hmm... what is that term? "Dependency Hell"?

:)

Yeah, it can be that way.

You pretty much need all of the dependencies to use the dev kit.

Suggestion: try installing the RH7.3 binary RPM. It might work jes'
fine.

> BTW, I am VK4NT. :-)

73s

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