Installing VNC on a Pentium-Pro running Redhat 5.0

[System Administrator]

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Peter D. Junger wrote:
> 
> In the first place, the binary of the viewer would not run on my machine:
> every time I invoked it there was a segmentation fault.  The solution was 
> to recompile the source.  I gunzipped the source, extracted it from the
> tar ball, and gave the two commands ``xmkmf'' and ``make World", and, voila,
> there was a new version of vncviewer.  It could not have been easier.
> 

it's very possible that the binary was compiled with a different libc or
glibc set than you have. USUALLY programs compiled under a linux will run
under another linux machine, but not always. Compiling, as you said is one
solution to the problem. The other, as someone else stated is to get the
specific rpm for you machine.
I have a PPro machine running caldera linux and the binary had no problem
running on my machine.

btw, I LOVE vnc (i think this is my first message to the list)

Ciao,

-Cygnus
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