loading/compiling previous versions of packages...

[Derek Broughton]

Barry Smith wrote:

> I wanted to set up a program to access LogMeIn under Linux.
> I downloaded the tar.gz Debian install of
> hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx-pentium.tar.gz,
> Hamachi requires a libcrypto.so.0.9.7, which is the previous version
> of libcrypto, or
> the openssl package.
> 
> Is there a simple way to tell Synaptic or RPM or yum or _SOMETHING_
> to handle the dependencies... I know RPM might be able to do it, but
> I'm not an RPM guru yet.

Do you know who you're emailing?  This is Ubuntu, we don't do rpm unless 
forced.  

Apt is far better at handling dependencies than rpm, but when you're 
starting from a tarball, all bets are off anyway.

> Please help me get Hamachi configured.  I followed the README
> instructions, but can't hamachi-init without libcrypto.so.0.9.7 or the
> previous openssl package
> installed.

Did you try http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135036
-- 
derek