[KLUG Members] rpm wierdness

Richard Zimmerman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:37:57 -0500


I'm trying to install the latest and greatest snort 1.8p1

However, I keep getting the following:

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[root@towaway /downloads]# rpm -Fvh snort-1.8p1-0.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libpq.so.2.0 is needed by snort-1.8p1-0

[root@towaway /downloads]# cd /usr/lib

[root@towaway lib]# ls -al libpq*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       376914 Aug 24  2000 libpq++.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Mar 23 12:05 libpq++.so ->
libpq++.so.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Mar 23 12:04 libpq++.so.3 ->
libpq++.so.3.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       198502 Aug 24  2000 libpq++.so.3.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        90774 Aug 24  2000 libpq.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Mar 23 12:05 libpq.so ->
libpq.so.2.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Mar 23 12:04 libpq.so.2 ->
libpq.so.2.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Feb 15 13:46 libpq.so.2.0 ->
libpq.so.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        79482 Aug 24  2000 libpq.so.2.1
[root@towaway lib]#
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OK, so libpq.so.2.0 is installed on my system as a symbolic link to
libpq.so.2.1.

Any ideas on why rpm dependency check can't see it?

TIA,

Richard