 | | | How to update/override packages? | How to update/override packages? 2005-11-09 - By Thom DeCarlo
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What is the right way to update and/or override packages that are provided
by Redhat, but are horribly out of date? For example, the TIFF library in
the RHEL3 distro is version 3.5.7, while the current release is version
3.7.3. Also, OpenOffice is at release 2.0, but Redhat is only distributing
version 1.2. And PostgreSQL v8.1.0 was just released; who knows how long
Redhat will take to get that into the distro, if ever.
These are only a couple examples of many that I need to update in order to
begin transitioning my MS Windows apps to Linux. I recently tried to update
the gtk+ libraries so I could update gimp and it really mucked up my system.
It is at all possible to get new versions of these packages?
Thanks for helping a newbie!
Thom
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