Continuing the split message that was over 4kb... Stefaan de Keersmaeker wrote: > Running ldconfig doesn;'t help either. The ldconfig command is just a tool for managing those symlinks just like the 'ln -s' from the command line. (But knowledgeable about libraries and safer and so forth.) The rpm command does not know about anything built by ldconfig either. > I even copied this library from another RH9 system which does have this > installed but no good. The rpm database does not know about your copied file. > Should I force an RPM install of gd-1.8.4-11.i386.rpm ? Not sure about doing > that, can installing an older package create problems for the newer one or > can they coexist? Since they have different versions the packages can coexist on the same system. But one of the problems of rpm is that the same package name can exist on the system multiple times. This is a feature to allow multiple versions of shared libraries to exist at the same time. But if you --upgrade it removes the old package as it installs the new package. So you have to know to --install newer packages onto the system when there are multiple packages. And those multiple packages need to have a non-overlapping set of files. If one installs /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8 and the other installs /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0 then there is no overlap and everything is fine. But if one installs /usr/share/gd/README and the other installs /sur/share/gd/README too then those packages overlap and would produce a file conflict. That is bad. In any case, you need to know these details in order to decide if you can have both of them on the system at the same time and whether --force is an okay thing to do in this case or not. Bob -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
