"Sumpter, Lloyd" wrote:
>
> Hi, fellow penguins!
>
> The thread on installation has prompted me to ask a question about rpm. I
> like tar-balls, but I recently installed Redhat 5.2 and have started using
> rpm. Unfortunately, since I usually install libraries from tar-balls, the
> rpm dependencies often fail (whereupon I use the --nodep flag to install the
> program).
>
> Is there a "fast" way to update the rpm database, perhaps using ldconfig
> to show it what libraries are actually available? (I don't care if
> utilities, apps, etc. aren't there - I'm just concerned with libs)
>
when you install libs from tar files they usually sit in /usr/local/lib
so make sure /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf and issue the
command ldconfig as root, that should do it
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Vicken Awakian
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