libxslt install

[Marianne Taylor]

On April 30, 2002 06:22 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue 30 April 2002 08:48 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Scribbling feverishly on April 30, edj managed to emit:
> > > On install attempt  of libxslt 1.0.16, it failed because libxml had to
> > > be
> > >
> > > >= 2.4.17.  I had libxml 2.4.1.  So, I installed libxml2-2.4.20.
> > > > Still,
> > >
> > > libxslt stopped with the same error - it still finds libxml 2.4.1.  I
> > > have the following on my system (WS 3.1):
> >
> > Well, libxml2 is not the same thing as libxml, which is the problem.
> > So, just taking a wild guess, I would install a version of *libxml* >=
> > 2.4.17, not *libxml2* >= 2.4.17.
>
> Thanks, but don't think there is a libxml 2.4.17.  I looked at Freshmeat
> and elsewhere.  I did find libxml-2.4.17-20020308.src.rpm, but it
> generates libxml2-2.4.17.tar.gz, which I already installed.  Library
> dependencies are a real mess, or there's something basic which I just
> don't begin to understand.  I'm sure it's the latter, but in the meantime,
> I'm still stuck.

KDE, at least 2.2.x  doesn't require libxml but uses libxml2.  Perhaps you 
could send the exact error to the list, and see if we can sort out what it is 
looking for?

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Marianne Taylor