thank you!

[shmegegge]

I must say, I'm really impressed with the linux community. I've only been using red hat 9 for a few days, now, and it's my first time using linux, but these forums have been incredibly helpful and everyone who has responded to my stupid newbie questions has been very nice. So, thank you to everyone here, I no longer harbor my old windows prejudices against what I imagined were nearly fascistic linux fanatics who hated everyone who used windows. Thanks. Now, if only I could get those red hat development tools installed...

[AlexPlank]

Go to your red hat (start) button and add/remove applications and install the develoment tools and if you wanna play with the kernel check that one too.

[dungscooperdave]

Glad to hear it! :D

[shmegegge]

already tried it. Here's my post from before that no one replied to... (sorry for the off topic, by the way.)

this, to my mind, is a pretty big problem. When I installed RH9, I neglected to install the development tools from the install cds. now that I'd like to, I'm getting a package dependancy error when I try to install the dev tool packages. I went to one of the rpm sites, and got the required packages. I went to install them and got the error that I already had NEWER versions of those packages installed. I presume that I must have gotten them through an automatic update. That doesn't change the fact that I can't install the compilers and other dev tools that are so vital to playing with linux. So, can I roll these updated packages back, or what? What can I do? Please give really simple instructions, because i just got this OS yesterday, and am a total n00b. Thanks.

Originally posted by AlexPlank
Go to your red hat (start) button and add/remove applications and install the develoment tools and if you wanna play with the kernel check that one too.

[AlexPlank]

Try getting the source and compiling it for the programs you need

[sean_foulkes]

I suggest changing the subject of your thread, starting a new one, or moving this thread if you want more help with your problem.

[brandon_yap]

Originally posted by shmegegge
I must say, I'm really impressed with the linux community. I've only been using red hat 9 for a few days, now, and it's my first time using linux, but these forums have been incredibly helpful and everyone who has responded to my stupid newbie questions has been very nice. So, thank you to everyone here, I no longer harbor my old windows prejudices against what I imagined were nearly fascistic linux fanatics who hated everyone who used windows. Thanks. Now, if only I could get those red hat development tools installed...
yah i am glad to help to ll of you!!!by the way i must thank u guys too!!!

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by shmegegge
this, to my mind, is a pretty big problem. When I installed RH9, I neglected to install the development tools from the install cds. now that I'd like to, I'm getting a package dependancy error when I try to install the dev tool packages. So... I don't suppose you restarted the installer and selected "upgrade", then added the -dev packages there, right?

I went to one of the rpm sites, and got the required packages. Oooh, not always such a great idea. Unless you're POSITIVELY sure that they were made for your version of your distro, they almost assuredly won't work. It's MUCH easier to just get them off your distro install CDs (and the easiest way to do that is to restart the installer).

And to whoever said "get the source and compile them yourself" -- he needs the development tools to even be able to attempt that, and the "stuff" he's trying to install is the development tools. So that isn't going to work.

[dungscooperdave]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Oooh, not always such a great idea. Unless you're POSITIVELY sure that they were made for your version of your distro, they almost assuredly won't work.
I've used rpms from other distros quite often without ever having any problems at all, though I'd definitely recommend using your distro's rpms instead if you can get them.

[bwkaz]

Well, it depends on the version of development tool you get.

If you install glibc-devel 2.2.5, but your distro is running glibc 2.3.2, then that won't work. If you install gcc 3.2, but your distro compiled your kernel with gcc 2.95.3, then again, that won't work very well (if you're trying to compile the nVidia drivers, for one).

If you're sure you have the correct version of everything, then go ahead, though.

[shmegegge]

Originally posted by bwkaz
So... I don't suppose you restarted the installer and selected "upgrade", then added the -dev packages there, right?[/B]

well, I did now. It didn't even occur to me to start the actual OS installer again. That worked perfectly. Thanks.

[bwkaz]

:)

You're welcome. It is kind of weird to do, when you think about it, but it works just fine.