elusive libraries
 

I'm trying to re-install fetchmail and pine (due to a massive user-induced system crash yesterday...oops) and both of them seem to depend on libcrypto.so.0.9.7, libssl.so.0.9.7 and libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3). [not sure how I got 'em installed before, by the way...I wish I knew.] I've noticed that dozens of other programs which I'd like to check out depend on one or more of these libraries, too (including a nice-looking firewall and WineX) but I can't seem to find them...by themselves, at least. Downloading rpms containing these libraries from rpmfind.net doesn't help, either, because invariably the rpms have dependancies of their own, and then I get into this big long chain...yadda, yadda, yadda... Yuk. Is there any way to get just the libraries, and if so, where???

Thanks,
Laura

libopenssl

if you ever need libraries, go to rpmfind.net and search for the files...

I do use rpmfind - but like I said, all the libraries I need seem to be contained in rpms holding 20 or more libraries, all of which have dependancies - and most of which I really don't need...all I want is the library in question :-/

yeah, see...I just checked on rpmfind for libopenssl - which provides

libopenssl0.9.7
libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libssl.so.0.9.7

but requires

/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libdl.so.2

.......how do I install something that requires itself? I'm no newbie, but I am hung up on this.

thanks

dunno to be honest but it won't be an issue, it'll install fine and everything else there is very core and standard.

ok...now I see the problem. Those libs are there in /usr/lib (I had wondered how the system was functioning without them :) ) but when I try to install something, i.e. "rpm -i fetchmail....rpm" it fails to find them, and even setting PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib doesn't help.
How can I make the installer see those files?

lib directories shouldn't be on your path, instead list in /etc/ld.so.conf if the path is not there already. then just rerun ldconfig if you change it.

aaaaaaargh. Nope, nothing's working. All the libraries are there, in usr/lib/, but when I try to install something it always gives me failed dependancies...nothing I do seems to make rpm find them! Is there anything I can do - move the libraries, symlinks, anything, so that I can get fetchmail installed?
thanks -