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[Jon Baer]

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LeeEyerman at aol.com wrote:

| 1) What Linux should I use?  I have a free distribution of Red Hat  9?
  Is
| Fedora better?  Any advice?

Debian is top notch, Ive heard issue w/ things not compiling right on
Fedora (Ive been holding off for a while now + still using 9), im not
100% sure what the issues are.

| 2) Currently my router is dynamically assigning TCP/IP #'s to each
machine.
| I know I have to set this up differently.  I want the linux  box to be
a http
| server, ftp, email, etc, and I want the windows boxes to have  access
to the

You should never dynamically assign static boxes ... I think DHCP on a
network you actually run is kinda evil .. if its just you, statically
assign everything, I personally think its better in the long run
considering dhcpd had a few sec alerts this past year.

| 3) Also, when I unpack RPM distributions and the RPM needs a library,
where
| is the best place to find it.  And if you can't find it what do you
do.  For
| example, I was trying to install PICO under Red Hat and it kept
asking for
| libncurses.so.5.  I check the web but could not find it.   Any help?

I find this to be a PITA as well.  Sometime downloading the source and
doing a ./configure --prefix=/usr fixes things, other times you should
really grab the libraries from the original RH9 disks, there are things
like yum and apt-get as well which are suppose to alleviate issues like
this but (from reading) each has its own pros and cons.

Sometimes if you build a library yourself (configure/make/sudo make
install) you can run RPM with --nodeps to get it to override that error
message if you know you have the library.  Whether this method is really
recommended I have yet to find out (how to keep RPMs and libs in sync).

- - Jon

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