Installation problem

[Simon Marlow]

On 30 July 2005 12:58, Dieter wrote:

> I'm using Linux 9.3 on a PC with a 64-architecture.
> 
> I'd like to install GHC and thought the easiest way would be to take
> an appropriate rpm-file.So I downloaded an rpm file, it was said to
> running with SUSE 9.2 without problems.
> But when starting rpm -i ghc.-6.4-1.i386.rpm I got the message:
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>           libgmp.so.3 is needed by ghc-6.4-1
> 
> But it is installed on my systems. I downloaded it again and
> installed it again and copied it (3 files: - the symlink libgmp.so,
> the symlink libgmp.so.3 and the file the libgmp.so.3.3.3) into
> several lib directories. NO SUCCESS
> 
> What is wrong?
> Has anyone an idea?

Are you running an x86_64 OS, or just a plain i386 one?  

If you're running x86_64, then perhaps you only have the 64-bit version
of libgmp installed?

Cheers,
	Simon