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Re: rpmfind-1.0-1.i386.rpm won't install

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Mon Nov 23 20:21:05 1998

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:20:55 -0600 (EST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <fred@usinternet.com>
Reply-To: criterion-consulting@usinternet.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <13914.1691.751729.743034@siren.bio.indiana.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Danny Rice wrote:

#
#rpm -ih --force rpmfind-1.0-1.i386.rpm 
#failed dependencies:
#        libdb.so.1 is needed by rpmfind-1.0-1
#
#I have this library: /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libdb.so.1 and when I
#link it to /lib or /usr/lib I still get the failed dependencies
#message.  What next?
#

rpm is probably looking for an ELF version of this library rather than
an aout one. What version of Red Hat are you running? libdb.2.0.7.so
is part of the glibc package and is in /lib.

Fred

"The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
is the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton,
15 Oct 1995 speech at the University of Connecticut




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