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Date:Mon Mar 10 15:32:29 2001 
Subject:Re: Installing poplog: some bugs and some thoughts 
From:ug55aes 
Volume-ID:1010310.01 

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0000, Stephen Isard wrote:
>
> Cost in money is not the only reason people might have for not upgrading
> an otherwise working system.  I agree that poplog ought to run on new
> distributions as well as old, but I'd be unhappy to see a policy of
> "you can't run poplog without upgrading to the latest".

I agree that we shouldn't force people to upgrade, but at the moment
Poplog is almost forcing people to downgrade, since you can't run poplog
without making your system bug-compatible with Red Hat 6.0.

Poplog links to libX11,so, which (in RH6) is a symlink to the real libX11
(libX11.so.6, I think) - I have no idea why RH6 made that symlink, but it
seems to have stopped doing so after version 6, so all modern 
distributions need to re-create that symlink to get Poplog to work. 

The proper file to link to (libX11.so.6) is the same in every distribution
of Linux I've used (including RH6), so making the change wouldn't cause
anyone any problems.

	- Andrew