installing older packages...

ozzie · 06-01-2004, 03:19 PM

I am trying to install a python-2.3-49 package, but it requires libdb-4.1.so as a dependency. I currently have db-4.2.52-85 installed on SuSE 9.1 Personal. I was wondering if there is a way to install db-4.1-x without causing any harm to my system or could a force install work even though the dependency isn't technically met in the package, but a newer version is installed.

-ozzie

320mb · 06-02-2004, 07:40 AM

I would first try making a symlink from whatever version is there now to the one you need......Example....

Code:

ln -s libdb-4.2.so libdb-4.1.so

and see if system will accept it........