On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:28 am,Tim Wunder wrote: > Tony Alfrey wrote: <snip> > > > > Oh, I forgot to mention that on my box, libdb.so.2 is a link to > > libdb1-2.1.2.so > > > > Does this confuse rpm?? > > Who knows? I know I'M confused about RPM. AFAIK, rpm only knows about > what rpm installs. If you've loaded a lib via tarball, rpm won't know > about it. > > FYI, I've got 3.0.6 installed on my Caldera eW31 system and > /lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb.so.2.7.7 > /lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1.so.2.7.7 > > libdb.so.2.7.7 & libdb1.so.2.7.7 are part of the db-2.7.7-12 rpm. > > 'What does rpm -q db' say? Perhaps upgrading your db package will > solve your dilema. > > Tim
Well, this sounds like the issue. My rpm does not know where the libraries came from. They must have started from some other source. I already did updatedb and rebuilddb. I will install the db-2.7.7-12 rpm and add the links and then try to install the rpm again. Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
