On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:53:18PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 20.05.2004 schrieb Paul D. Brown um 22:55: > > > I had a similar problem installing something and found somewhere a > suggestion > > to symlink libcom_err.so.3 to libcom_err.so.2. I did that and it appears to > > have worked, though I don't know exactly what would go wrong if it didn't. > > Sorry I don't remember more specifics, but maybe that will give you something > > to try. > > > > Paul > > That is mostly ever a bad idea as the "missing" library indicates that > the software intended to install is not for the platform you try to > install on. You won't know what might happend if you force the install > this way. In worst case you loose data! > > Alexander I'm sure you are right, but I was desparate and grabbed on the first solution I found. Now that you make me rethink it, I went back to find why I did that. It was to install a fetchmail package I built for FC1 to get kerberos support, and the symlink didn't work, I just forced it on with --nodeps. I guess I will go back and try to recompile fetchmail again. The original suggestion to make the symlink came from this lists archives: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg01705.html So back to ground zero for the OP.... Paul
