On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:28, you wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > 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'.
> >>
> >>HTH
> >>Tim
> >
> > 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.
The problem is that rpm probably wants that file to be somewhere else. Find
that, and a symlink fixes it. There are real fancy options with rpm which
might help you run this down (Man rpm... read for an hour, try 27 times or
use a package manager :), or talk to someone who actually has it running
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
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that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
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