On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 23:22 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Mike Hoy wrote: > > > what's the deal with needing libcurl.so.2 in order to install various > > programs on FC3? > > > > apparenly FC3 does not have libcurl.so.2 but libcurl.so.3 > > > > and certain applications can't use libcurl.so.3 they must have > > libcurl.so.2 > > > > how do you solve this problem? > > > > or does one just put up with it. > > > > mike h > > > The one provided actually is newer, and may expose the same symbols as > the previous, so you may just do a symlink to it under /usr/lib/: > su > password: > cd /usr/lib > ln -s libcurl.so.3 libcurl.so.2 > > That should do it. It may or may not work, depending on whether the program(s) you are trying to install make use of the APIs that have changed between versions 2 and 3 of the library. A much better solution would be to install the genuine libcurl.so.2: # rpm -Uvh http://www.city- fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/Mirroring/compat-libcurl-7.11.2-2.i386.rpm This package is designed to co-exist peacefully with libcurl.so.3 from FC3's curl package. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
