Installation problem

Dieter Büttner judisun at t-online.de
Tue Aug 2 15:00:11 EDT 2005


Am Montag, 1. August 2005 14:00 schrieben Sie:
> 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

I have a X86_64 architecture. So you may be right. In which lib directory 
ghc-6.4-1 is looking for libgmp? There I could install the 32 bit version.

Thanks
Dieter


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