Subject: Re: bzip2 & rpm vs make install
From: Sam Moore (smoo@lungta.org)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 21:10:35 MST
Am running
rpm --rebuilddb
We'll see if that helps.
thanks for the input.
On 11/14/00 at 10:08 PM, hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hollis R Blanchard) wrote:
> 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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