[Libguestfs] libguestfs-1.6 on RHEL5.5 Server

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:00:59AM +0000, mk wrote:
> I need to install libguestfs 1.6 on Red Hat 5.5 Server.
> 
> I have tried to download libguestfs-1.6.0-1.fc13.1.x86_64.rpm and install
> it, but there is plenty of unresolved dependencies, which I am not able to
> satisfy with the repositories I am connected to. The same issue blocks me
> when I try to compile the source code.
> 
> So I tried to add fedora repository into the system:

Adding a Fedora repository like this is not possibly going to work.

To get libguestfs 1.6 to compile, I would start with installing the
dependencies from all the 'BuildRequires' lines in this file:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=libguestfs.spec;hb=HEAD

(The basic ones at least, don't bother with the language bindings).

Once you've got a good proportion of the basic BRs added, you can try
compiling using that spec file and rpmbuild.

This is definitely not a simple task since we haven't been concerned
with RHEL 5 compatibility for the latest libguestfs (only version 1.2)
for many months, so undoubtedly parts of the code have changed to be
incompatible with RHEL 5's gcc, autotools etc.

Rich.

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