[gps-users] be careful when installing...

Jerry van Dijk jvandyk@attglobal.net
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:35:42 +0200


Lambourg Jerome writes:

 > Be extremely careful when you install the linux binary version of gps...
 > in fact, if you install it in /usr, there are great chances that it will
 > overwrite your gtk lib files ! 
 > 
 > This happened to me and this is not funny as lot of dependencies now
 > fails (libpng.so.2 does not exist any more on Mdk9.1 as an example...).

Which is why I build everything from source. I wonder if it would be useful
to invest some extra effort and create a set of mdk RPMs. 

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