libgif.so.4()(64bit) and libungif.so.4()(64bit)

[yunusemre]

Hi Friends,

When i try to install some rpm's , especially xine, i get this error "libgif.so.4()(64bit) is needed" or libungif.so.4()....

My os is RHEL 5.2 and the other one is RHEL 5.4....

How can i solve this problem? Can anyone help?

[Irithori]

hi,

RedHat is designed as a enterprise server operating system.
That means:
a) it is a bit conservative on the choice of software versions.
b) it focuses on server usage and not so much on desktop needs like sound/graphic/media/wlan etc.

That's why xine is not even available in its standard RPM repository.

So, where are these xine RPMs from and how are you trying to install them (and why on a redhat system)?

[yunusemre]

Thanks for your interest irithori.

Actually i succesfully installed xine on our several rhel 5.4,5.3 machines and i didnt get any error. but some machines which has rhel 5.2 give that error.

[Irithori]

The errors indicate unmet dependencies.
That's why I asked where you got them and how the RPMs were installed.

I *assume* you downloaded them manually from <somewhere> and installed them via rpm -i

Another assumption: the 64bit version of the dependent RPM (libgif?) is not installed.