On 8/24/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:09:14PM -0400, Mjumbe Poe wrote: > > Whenever I try to run RPM, I get the message: > > > > rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.3.so: cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > I recently upgraded my version of RPM to 4.4.1 (along with Fedora 4 > > from Fedora 3). > > What did you use to upgrade? anaconda/yum/apt? I used the ISO images from online. > > > While doing some package cleaning (the atrpms yum repository didn't > > work very well for me, > > What wasn't working? In general, many of the atrpm package would be listed as causing dependency problems when I tried to update my machine. This is, in fact, why I eventually upgraded from the ISOs instead of with yum. > > so I was replacing all of the atrpm packages), I removed a package > > called librpmdb4.3. I figured this would be okay, since I was using > > a new version of RPM with a whole shiny new rpm-libs. But now I'm > > getting this error. > > Sounds like you didn't update all components of rpm to 4.4.x > > What does > > # strings `which rpm`|grep librpm-4 > I get: # strings `which rpm` | grep librpm-4 librpm-4.4.so # Strangely enough, I didn't have to use --nodeps with librpm4.3 when uninstalling. > > I would reinstall rpm-libs-4.3 from an rpm, except I can't run RPM. > > Any ideas? > > You can unpack rpm packages with rpm2cpio/cpio if rpm goes > valhalla. You can also use rescue mode or sync the files from a > working machine. Unfortunately, rpm2cpio gives me the same error: # rpm2cpio rpm2cpio: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # I'll try from rescue mode. - Mjumbe
