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Subject: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2
From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:18:01 -0700

Can anyone give me some hints on how to install ssh on a Red
Hat 5.2 system?  I'm wondering about basic things like which
versions should I be looking at, and are there any tricks
for handling library incompatibility problems that I should
know about?  

The current state of my problem is that I've gotten this rpm
to install:

   ssh-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm 

But there's no "clients" rpm with the same version out there
on www.rpmfind.net.  So what do I use with it? 

And if you're really interested, let me back up and tell you
the kinds of stuff I've been trying (I've been doing the
rpm fandago on this one for way too long...).

First I grabbed this rpm (thinking it was the latest):

   rpm -i ssh-1.2.27-5us.i386.rpm

   failed dependencies:
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ssh-1.2.27-5us
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ssh-1.2.27-5us

I tried to sort out the dependencies, but:

   rpm -i glibc-2.0.7-29.i386
   package glibc-2.0.7-29 is already installed

   rpm -i glibc-2.1.1-6.i386
   error: glibc-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm cannot be installed

All of which is a tad confusing. 

Then I realized there's a "ssh2" out there, so I tried that:

   rpm -i ssh2-2.0.13-1i.i386.rpm

   failed dependencies:
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ssh2-2.0.13-1i
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ssh2-2.0.13-1i
	libcrypt.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ssh2-2.0.13-1i
	libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ssh2-2.0.13-1i

(The same dependency problems, plus some more for good
measure.)

I started wondering if I would get somewhere faster using
something old and stale:

   rpm -i ssh-1.2.26-1us.libc5.i386.rpm
   rpm -i ssh-extras-1.2.26-1us.libc5.i386.rpm
   rpm -i ssh-clients-1.2.26-1i.libc5.i386.rpm

These all seemed to install okay, but then running "ssh"
just segfaulted.

I played around with setting up a wrapper script like this: 

   #!/bin/bash
   ME=$(basename $0)
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
/usr/bin/Stale/$ME $*

But all it did was let "ssh" die without error rather than
segfault. 

I undid all of the above:

   rpm -e ssh-extras-1.2.26-1us.libc5
   rpm -e ssh-clients-1.2.26-1i.libc5
   rpm -e ssh-1.2.26-1us.libc5

And tried this one (which might really be the "latest"):

   rpm -i ssh-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm

This looked like it installed fine.  But there's no
"clients" rpm of the same version (2.0.11) out on rufus, so
I don't know what I need to use it with.


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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2
From: "Greg W" <redhat_list@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 05:39:54 GMT


>From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
>Can anyone give me some hints on how to install ssh on a Red
>Hat 5.2 system?

With older systems, will probably have too look for an older RPM, its a 
little cryptic isn't it? (no pun intended)I ended up downloading a few 
different slightly older versions that included everything, check all the 
comments etc in the RPM, decide whether you trust the source, then install. 
I installed a few packages that were broken as well, to get ver 2 to work I 
imagine that you would have to compile it yourself, there was talk of it 
months back on the list from memory.

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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:49:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Greg W said:

> Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>  wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone give me some hints on how to install ssh on a Red
> > Hat 5.2 system?

> With older systems, will probably have too look for an
> older RPM, its a little cryptic isn't it? (no pun
> intended) I ended up downloading a few different slightly
> older versions that included everything, check all the
> comments etc in the RPM, decide whether you trust the
> source, then install.  I installed a few packages that were
> broken as well, to get ver 2 to work I imagine that you
> would have to compile it yourself, there was talk of it
> months back on the list from memory.

I think that 1.26 will work perfectly with RH5.2. Get the rpm's at
ftp.replay.com.

RH 6.0 requires 1.27 for the daemon but the 1.26 client software seems to
work fine on it!

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Subject: Re: Sendmail RPMS (ATTN Chuck Mead?)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 02:22:04 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Gate said:

G>Hey, Chuck..
G>
G>Just downloaded the RPMS from your server, but I'm getting the following
G>dependency errors:
G>
G>[root@rackmount rpm]# rpm -ivh sendmail-*
G>failed dependencies:
G>        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by sendmail-8.9.3-15LP
G>        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by sendmail-8.9.3-15LP
G>        libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by sendmail-8.9.3-15LP
G>        libnsl.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by sendmail-8.9.3-15LP
G>        libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by sendmail-8.9.3-15LP
G>[root@rackmount rpm]# rpm -q glibc
G>glibc-2.0.7-29
G>
G>Am I missing something here?? Thanks!

Yeah... you're running RH5.x. If you're gonna use the binary versions you
need 6.0. The src.rpm is there if you want to use it... get it and do 

rpm -Uvh sendmail etc.

then cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

and type rpm -bb sendmail.spec

When it's done your rpm's will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS

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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2
From: redhat <redhat@triadntr.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:17:34 -0400

I've got ssh2 runing on several 5.2 boxes and if I recall
correctly, all I did was follow the install directions and
compiled the software.  I do remember reading the man pages
a few dozen times :) 

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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2 
From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:31:08 -0700

redhat <redhat@triadntr.net> wrote:

> I've got ssh2 runing on several 5.2 boxes and if I recall
> correctly, all I did was follow the install directions and
> compiled the software.  I do remember reading the man pages
> a few dozen times :)

Thanks for the hint. All I can report is that I tried 
  ssh2-2.0.13-1i.i386.rpm
and it didn't work.  

The trick -- for those of us stubborn folk still sticking
with RedHat 5.2 -- seems to be to look at the dates in the
packages, to try and find a release that immediately prior
to the release of RedHat 6.0.  So in theory I could go
looking for ssh2 packages that were released in mid-1998,
and possibly find one that would work. 

Unfortunately, the build date is only a rough guide.  I
think you can use it to find a package that's on the line,
but not which side of the line it's on. 

In any case, I got a version of "ssh" working by following
this hint from Chuck Mead:

Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <http://moongroup.com> wrote:

> I think that 1.26 will work perfectly with RH5.2. Get the rpm's at
> ftp.replay.com.

I used: 

  ssh-1.2.26-1us.i386.rpm

This has a build date of: Sat Jul 11 13:18:02 1998

For comparision, the ssh-1.2.27-4us RPM (which doesn't work)
has a build date of: Tue Jun 8 06:20:57 1999, which is
actually a little *earlier*.

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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:16:22 -0400


Joe Brenner wrote:
> 
> redhat <redhat@triadntr.net> wrote:
> 
> > I've got ssh2 runing on several 5.2 boxes and if I recall
> > correctly, all I did was follow the install directions and
> > compiled the software.  I do remember reading the man pages
> > a few dozen times :)
> 
> Thanks for the hint. All I can report is that I tried
>   ssh2-2.0.13-1i.i386.rpm
> and it didn't work.

I was on the ssh mailing list a few weeks ago, which convinced me
that ssh 2 was a) unfinished, and b) encumbered by a restrictive
license.

Most ssh tools out there still use ssh 1, maybe for the same reasons.
And, ssh 1 and ssh 2 were not compatible when I looked.  

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Subject: Re: Trying to install ssh on RedHat 5.2 
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:03:22 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Joe Brenner wrote:

> Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <http://moongroup.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think that 1.26 will work perfectly with RH5.2. Get the rpm's at
> > ftp.replay.com.
> 
> I used: 
> 
>   ssh-1.2.26-1us.i386.rpm
> 
> This has a build date of: Sat Jul 11 13:18:02 1998
> 
> For comparision, the ssh-1.2.27-4us RPM (which doesn't work)
> has a build date of: Tue Jun 8 06:20:57 1999, which is
> actually a little *earlier*.

Suggestion: for security software, recompile it from the sources. Try
grabbing the source RPM for 1.2.27-Xus and do a --rebuild.

Paranoid? Me? Naah.

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