Subject: Re: bzip2 & rpm vs make install
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 20:08:23 MST
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Patrick Callahan wrote:
> Sam Moore wrote:
>
> > Since kdeadmin-2.0-1a.ppc.rpm needs libbz2.so.1, I downloaded and installed
> > bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz, as follows:
> >
> > tar -xvpzf bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz
> > cd bzip2-1.0.1
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > The install seemed to go fine, but the rpm is still complaining that libbz2.so.1
> > isn't installed.
> > Did I miss something here?
> > BTW there are libs called libbz2.so, libbz2.so.0 and libbz2.so.0.0.0 at
> > /usr/lib.
As a general rule, make rpm happy. rpm does not go out and investigate
every file on your system; it only knows its database. Install a bzip2
rpm; do not just 'make install' and expect rpm to be happy.
-Hollis
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