Re: Compilation problem for IFMIB

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
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On 03/01/07, Treesa Fairy Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
> I checked the rpmfind site. I understand that there is
> no net-snmp 5.4 rpm for fc3.

Correct - we have supplied an RPM for FC5.
But FC4 (and previous) are no longer actively supported by the Fedora Project,
so we're unlikely to provide binaries for them.

>                                         So what should i do? Should
> I do the installation from the source

The simplest thing would be to grab the source RPM from the project website,
install that, and then run

     rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/specs/net-snmp.spec

That would build an RPM of net-snmp 5.4, suitable for your system.

>                                        or i should update my
> fc3 to any higher version (please tell which version also)?


At some point, you should probably consider upgrading, yes.
You're likely to run into this same problem more and more, since
increasingly few packages will be released for relatively old Linux
distributions.
   The rpmbuild approach above should work with most source RPMs,
but you may find an increasing number of missing dependencies and
"too-old" versions.

If you're going to upgrade, it's sensible to use the latest release of
whichever distribution you're comfortable with.  (Fedora 6 is just out).
But only you can decide whether/when the disruption is worth it.

Dave

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