On Friday 07 April 2006 12:08, Christopher Linn wrote:
>i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation.  when using
>amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site,
>it fails with:
>
>error: Failed dependencies:
>        tar >= 1.15 is needed by
> amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386
>
>yet when i have searched for a tar >= 1.15 rpm i have only found rpms
>for RHEL4 going up through tar-1.14-9.RHEL4.src.rpm (this on rpmfind).

I'm told that the 1.14 versions from RH, if fresh, have the backported 
patches that fixed 1.14 so it worked.  I think I'd make a softlink & 
see if it works.

>>= 1.15 rpms are only available for SuSE, Mandriva, Fedora and
>> Mandrake.
>
>is it possible to use an rpm from one of these other distros?  what do
>other folks do about this?
>
>thanks,
>
>chris

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