installing on fedora 8

ecdowney

Hello. I need to build and run an app that uses Ice on a machine running Linux Fedora 8. I hope it is still possible. Here is what I have tried, based on instructions found at ZeroC - Download

1. created /etc/yum.repos.d/zeroc-ice-el6.repo containing:
[zeroc-ice]
name=Ice 3.5 for RHEL $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.5/el$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.zeroc.com/download/RPM-GPG-KEY-zeroc-release

2. tested yum using the recommended search command:
# yum list ice* db53* mcpp-devel
http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.5/el8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: zeroc-ice. Please verify its path and try again

Ideas welcome. Thanks in advance.

Elwood Downey, Software Engineer
Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

xdm

Hi Elwood,

We don't officially support any Fedora version, and i don't know if Fedora 8 is binary compatible with rhel6.

The 404 HTTP error is caused because you are using the rhel 6 yum repository, which uses some environment variables in the base URL and that variables are different in Fedora8.

You can edit the "zeroc-ice-el6.repo" file and update the baseurl variable, it should like:

baseurl=http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.5/el6/$basearch

But i cannot assure you that this will work as we don't support Fedora8, if you have problems using the binary distribution you can give a try to the source distribution and try to build Ice 3.5 from sources for your platform.

Best Regards,
Jose

ecdowney

Hello Jose,

That helped move things along but there are still tons of missing dependencies on older lib versions, even very basic stuff like libstdc++. Tried the source kit but it's no better. I accept f8 is very old. Thanks anyway.