On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:56 am,Tim Wunder wrote: > Tony Alfrey wrote: > > Hi gang! > > > > I'm sure this must have come up before; please bear with me. > > What's the general approach for solving "failed dependencies" when > > the library that rpm cannot find is clearly installed? > > Specifically, I'm installing rpm-3.0.6-4.i386.rpm and libdb.so.2 > > cannot be found. But I know it is in /lib. > > I've done rpm --rebuilddb and updatedb. > > I'm not going to do --nodeps on rpm and risk having no rpm at all. > > Thanks! > > I'd try to find the package that contains libdb.so.2 and re-install > that with 'rpm -Uvh --replacefiles'.
libdb.so.2 is a link to libdb1-2.1.2.so I did an rpm -qif on both of these libraries to find out what package they started from, but they belong to no package. ;-( > > HTH > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at > http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users