yeah, it looked like a usefull command when you recommended it to me and i read the manpage. in addition to adding the paths that you recommended i added another one that i thought would be pertinent. unfortuneately it didn't seem to help me with my problem. for some reason forcing the rpm to install without checking for dependencies worked better than showing it where the files it depended on were. i find that strange, but i know little about this sort of thing still.
On 25 Nov 2002, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 18:58, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > What does editting the /etc/ld.so.conf do? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Good question! > When binaries look for dependent libraries, they need to know where to > look - almost like a "path" statement, but for libs. So, in essence, > when you edit the /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure that the basic library > paths are in there, and you run ldconfig to rebuild the path cache, > you're ensuring that programs you install or compile will be able to > find the proper dependencies. > > Doesn't it really suck when you KNOW you've got QT3 installed, but when > you're compiling a proggie you get errors that QT3 ain't there? > > By making sure, you're only creating a more stable environment from > which to work, play, compile, program and more... > > ...just good sysadmin stuff mate! > Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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