On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:24 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Jul2006 19:37, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | David Desscan writes: > | >I cannot use neither yum nor rpm after I compiled and installed > | >openssl-0.9.8. I did the following before make install: [...] > | >rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.5 : cannot open > | >shared object file: No such file or directory > | > | And every time I warn someone against the bright idea of manually compiling > | and installing your own stuff, instead of using rpm to install all software > | on your system, some testosterone-laded ubergeek always begins mouthing off > | how compiling your own stuff and installing it is always better [...] > > Sounds like Sam has had to fix this kind of thing too often. > > David, the core lesson here is: never install stuff you compile and > build yourself in the vendor namespace (/, /usr etc). Use a --prefix > of /usr/local or /opt/package-version or something like that. There is another equally important lesson: NEVER use --nodeps with rpm unless you *really* know what you're doing. The dependencies in rpm are there for a reason. If you tried removing the package without "--nodeps", rpm would give a list of packages that depend on what you're trying to remove. That list of packages is a first-level list of things you can expect to break if you remove the package with "--nodeps". Seeing "rpm" on that list should ring big, fat alarm bells... Paul.
