Graphviz / Redhat 9 issue

Following Neil's posting on adding Graphviz functionality
(http://www.inmon.com/traffic-management/0200.html) to the Routing >
Path Analysis > Network maps category to display some graphical path
views, I thought I would build this into our current demo platform. In
doing so I noticed the following "feature".

There is an incompatibility between RH 9.0 and Graphviz linux rpm
binaries because RH 9.0 uses libpng.so.3 rather than libpng.so.2. It
tells you this when you try to install it and just doesn't install
properly if you try to force it or ignore deps. The workaround is
explained below and worked straight away.

Regards,

Nick

http://www.esup-portail.org/consortium/espace/SSO_1B/tech/cas/mod_cas/do
c/p_devel.html
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Graphviz installation

A binary package is available on
http://www.research.att.com/tools/graphviz for RedHat 7.2 but
installation fails on RedHat 9 (libpng.so.2 is required and RedHat 9 is
shipped with version 3). This package may work on RedHat 7.3 and/or 8.0
(not tested).

As source package graphviz-1.9.0.src.rpm does not compile on RedHat 9, a
snap shot is needed (1.9.20030623.015-0).

From RPM binaries (RedHat 9)

Simply download the package from here and install it:
% cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
% mv /tmp/graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.i386.rpm .
% rpm -ih graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.i386.rpm

from RPM sources

Get the source RPM graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.src.rpm from
http://www.research.att.com/tools/graphviz or from here, install it,
build the binary packages and install them:

% cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
% mv /tmp/graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.src.rpm .
% rpm -ih graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.src.rpm
% rpmbuild -bb ../SPECS/graphviz.spec
% rpm -ih ../RPMS/i386/graphviz-1.9.20030623.0415-0.i386.rpm

Note: XFree86-devel is needed to build the binary packages.

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