Re: installing sane 1.00

Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:36:42 +0000

On Feb 3, 9:32am, Henk Verleye wrote:
> Subject: installing sane 1.00
> This is my first mail to this mailing list, and my mail does not really
> fall in the category "development", so please don't shoot me for this
> question, especially because my problem is probably a stupid little thing.
>
> I have downloaded the files sane-1.00-1.i386.rpm and
> sane-devel-1.00-1.i386.rpm from the SANE home site. Now whenever I try
> to install one of them ( rpm -i sane.etc.....i386.rpm ), I get the reply
> "Data type 9 not supported". It does not matter if I run rpm as root or
> under my own user name.
>
> Does anyone know what is happening here ?
>

Yep, you're trying to install a glibc app on a libc only system. You probably
need to upgrade your distribution.

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