rpm and libdb-3.31.so

ctwarchol · 10-04-2001, 10:03 AM

HELP.... Red Hat 6.1, 2.2.12-20

Short Story:
in response to rpm -qa I an receiving the message

/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: error in loading shared libraries: libdb-3.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I was doing some clean up after an install.

acid_kewpie · 10-04-2001, 11:32 AM

the file is given by

http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/re...17-7.i386.html

you should have it on your distro cd's.

check it's not actually installed already. if it is check that the dir it's in is in /etc/ld.so.config. if not, add it and run ldconfig

ctwarchol · 10-04-2001, 12:10 PM

I have a hard copy of installed packages, I don't see db3... as being installed. btw, rpm version is 3.0.3-2. Do I still need to install it? Thanks

acid_kewpie · 10-04-2001, 12:39 PM

well, it's probably best to upgrade the package really, seeing as the mid-versino number is different. You may well get away with simply soft linking the existing file to the name of the new one... no guarentee tho. it'll certainly stop that error.. but a new one isn't that unlikely...;-)

ctwarchol · 10-05-2001, 09:58 AM

Chris:
Thanks very much for all of the feedback. It seems like someone upgraded RPM on this box to 4.0.2 w/out db3. After some additional searching on rpm.org, I'm finding that my options are: a) install db3, or, b)upgrade to RPM 4.0.3 (rpm-4.0.3 uses an internal copy of db-3.3.11 so no db3 packages are needed).

Thanks again,
Dave