On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:59, Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > Just wondering...why does net-snmp need these RPM rpms: > > librpm-4.2.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.1-2.1 > librpmdb-4.2.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.1-2.1 > librpmio-4.2.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.1-2.1 Because you can query the package database via SNMP, so the rpm library is linked into the package. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]