[ale] rpm dependency confusion

[Wandered Inn]

Ken N wrote:
> 
> You need to get the source rpm and rebuild that sould fix your problem.
> you can look at www.nacs.net/~kenn/srcrpms.html on how this is done.
> 
> if you want to cheat you can create a symbolic link
> i.e.
> bash# ln -s libbz2.so.1 libbz2.so.0 but it always better to use the src
> rpms if you wnat to use rpms in the first place.

Yeah, I tried all flavors of sym links, but none worked.  I had hoped to
be able to keep this machine completely rpm based, just as kind of a
'proof of possibilities,' I guess it's not possible.

Thanks.

> 
> hope that helps.
> Ken N
> 
> The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines;
> dangerous only when submerged.
> 
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to install rpmfind-1.4-5, and I get:
> >
> > libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpmfind-1.4-5
> >
> > But wait, ldconfig -v |grep libbz yields:
> >
> > libbz2.so.1 => libbz2.so.1.0.0
> >
> > So what gives?  Shouldn't rpmfind get installed with this later version?
> >
> >
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> > Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > Microsoft != Innovation
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