Newbie question

[Alan DeKok]

Jair Santos wrote:
> Well guys, let's clarify.

  You didn't click on the link for 2.1.1 on the main web page:
freeradius.org.  Instead, you clicked on the "download" link.  You
didn't click on the "tar" file link for 2.1.1 on that page, either.  You
didn't click on the "git.freeradius.org" link for the new server source.
 Instead, you followed the instructions for "other projects".

  And when you're wandering around the net looking for why there are
issues with SNMP, you don't read the "changelog" in the most recent version.

  Honestly... there *is* a lot of effort put into documenting the
server.  Yet sometimes people put a lot of effort into *ignoring* that
documentation.  They look everywhere else *but* the main web page... and
the files that come with the server.

  Can you explain why?  I've never been able to understand it.

> I have no control about the files that are there. I would like to have the
> latest version, that is AFAIK 2.1.1. 

  Which is available from the links above.

> The point is that when I tried to download from www.freeradius.org it didn't
> compile for my Read Hat ES version 5.2,  64 bits.

  Because your system has both 32-bit && 64-bit libraries.  When the
build system asks to link to a library, the linker on your system
chooses the wrong one... and then complains.  Nice!

> I'll be really grateful if someone could tell exacly where I can download v
> 2.1.1 from that will  work for my linux distribution.

  If you look at the main "download" page, there's a link to pre-built
binaries for Fedora.  There's even an x86_64 link, which has RPM's for
an older version (2.0.5)

  Alan DeKok.