I need Miredo for F10

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Dec 10 13:08:11 UTC 2008


Todd Denniston wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote, On 12/09/2008 05:55 PM:
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> And 
>>> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=miredo&submit=Search+...&system=&arch= 
>>> only finds it for F9. So I download that anyway and try to do a yum 
>>> localinstall and it needs:
>>>
>>> libcap.so.1
>>>
>>> And libcap.so.2 is installed, what to do?
>>
>> Well, one of number of things things:
>>
>> 1) If the API for libcap.so.2 is backward compatible enough for what 
>> you need it for, just put a in symlink linking libcap.so.1 -> 
>> libcap.so.2.
>>
>> 2) If the API for libcap.so.2 is incompatible with what your 
>> application needs, then you will need to find a .src.rpm for building 
>> libpcap.so.1, build it yourself, and install it locally.
>>
>> 3) Find an old RPM and install it and hope that it works.
>>
>> Sometimes there are compatibility versions of libraries available in 
>> one or more of the repos, but a "yum search libcap.so.1" for me 
>> doesn't find anything.
>>
>
> A further option considering "Miredo is an open-source Teredo IPv6 
> tunneling software for..."[1], would be to snag a copy of the source 
> to Miredo[2] and build it on F10... of course that assumes that the 
> software has something sort of nice like a configure script to let the 
> OP know that they need more 'devel' packages and that the OP 
> understands what the configure script is asking for.

And there is the crux of the problem. If it is not a plug-n-pay build, 
it will take me a day to pull off, and I have other fish to fry on this 
project right now. I will try and reach the builder and get them to look 
into this.

>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miredo
> [2] http://www.remlab.net/files/miredo/?C=N;O=D
>




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