kg> If it were me, I would put something newer than
kg> redhat 8 (which has long since been end-of-lifed
kg> by redhat) on the machine.
Of course that's the ideal solution, and probably the
source of many of my problems, but I'm not in a
position to do that. The system in question is my
*only* Linux system, and I use it all day every day to
make my living on. If I try to install a new version on
the system and it fails to come up properly I will
effectively instantly unemploy myself.
QUESTION 1: What are the chances that installing *any*
Linux distro on this system will go as smooth
as glass and allow me to get right back to
work?
ANSWER 1: 99.999% likely to fail.
QUESTION 2: What are the chances that installing *any*
Linux distro on this system with the
assistance of people at an Installfest will go
as smooth as glass and allow me to get right
back to work?
ANSWER 2: 99.991% likely to fail.
Those odds aren't good enough.
Nonetheless, it's been my hope to install a new version
as soon as possible, probably by means of an
Installfest. Regretably, I am unable to get to one this
weekend. I'm targeting the one next month, and hope by
that time I will have archived everything important,
and made a list of all the other stuff I need to
install and/or re-configure.
Traditionally, whenever I do an OS upgrade, the pieces
don't stop rolling for a couple of weeks.
kg> by the time you fiddle around with getting the
kg> correct libraries on that machine in rh8, you
kg> will have probably spent the same amount of time
kg> it will have taken to back up your data, install
kg> a newer linux, restore your data.
Not to mention the tons of other stuff I have on this
system that has been installed over the last couple of
years.
kg> you might look into one of the distros which
kg> don't require that type of update, like gentoo or
kg> debian. you will be much happier in the end, with
kg> an easier to maintain system.
I was planning on Debian. Not real familiar with
GenToo, other than I've heard positive things about it
from technically savy people.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've been out of town and not watching the list, so
>> maybe this has been discussed recently, but ...
>>
>> I just downloaded the FireFox 1.0PR bundle, unwrapped
>> it, tried to install it, and as it tried to unwind it
>> spit out the message:
>>
>> Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library
>>
>> In fact, I do have four different iterations of
>> libxpistub.so on my sytem:
>>
>> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/libxpistub.so
>> /usr/local/mozilla/libxpistub.so
>> /usr/local/netscape/libxpistub.so
>> /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/libxpistub.so
>>
>> but not what the installer is looking for.
>>
>> I'm trying to install this on a Red Hat 8.0 system,
>> which is getting increasingly difficult to maintain.
>>
>> There's no readme, no instructions of any kind, etc.
>>
>> Just like the old days. Here I thought the days of
>> supposedly high quality projects delivering things that
>> are broken from the get-go or missing important pieces
>> were mostly behind us. Apparently not.
>>
>> So ... does someone have a clue what I should do next?
--
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ
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