installation errors

[Frank Tobin]

Royal Harvey, at 12:58 -0700 on Tue, 30 May 2000, wrote:

>     I asked my sysadmin what are the OS and C-compiler versions of the
> server I am trying to install gpg to, and the reply was: "This is what
> the GNU C Compiler (gcc) reported as its version info: gcc version
> egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) "The OS is Slackware
> Linux 7.0 which uses the 2.2.13 Linux kernel and glibc-2.1.2.
> jtj  30-May-2000  14:36:19"

Your version of gcc is not the recommended stable version.  According to
http://gcc.gnu.org/, the current stable version is gcc 2.95.2, but gcc
2.8.1 might be okay too.  This might be a source of problems.

> Frank Tobin suggested that I try RPM.  What is RPM?

RedHat Package Manager.  Sorta of a pre-compiled distribution installation
system.  I can't remember offhand who is distributing the RPM for GnuPG
(it's not official from Werner, IIRC).  Can't provide you with details on
how to handle it on a Slackware system either.

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