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Mon, Apr 14, 2008

RPM Hell

Posted at 5:20 pm MDT to Technology

I spent part of yesterday trying to get an LDAP server working on quadriga, my big server. Quadrica runs Centos, which is equivalent to RedHat Enterprise Linux. I'm running into what look like software dependency problems.

I think I have been spoiled by the software package management on Ubuntu, which is derived from the Debian package handling and handles dependencies beautifully. It also seems to handle the existence of similar packages for 32 and 64 bits more sensibly.

I was going to try to cleanout all the packages related to SASL and LDAP and reload them cleanly, but so many things depend on them that I would lose half my OS. It doesn't seem to pay attention to the fact that the 64 bit versions of the modules are being added at the same time that 32 bit versions are being removed.

I think I'm going to switch to the command line.

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