Failed depencies: libmysqlclient.so.16 is needed

fisher39 · 09-22-2010, 02:30 PM

I'm trying to install something on my server that requires mysqlclient, but looking at my RPM package list I have it ("MySQL-client-5.0.91-0.glibc23"). Doing a locate on libmysqlclient gives me this:

Quote:

[root@host.domain.net] ~ >> locate libmysqlclient
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.a
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.la
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.la
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so
/usr/local/cpanel/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.14

For some reason it looks like I'm missing libmysqlclient.so.16. Does anyone know why this could be? How do I go about getting it? I'm currently running CentOS 5, on a x64 system.

Thanks a lot.

weibullguy · 09-22-2010, 02:41 PM

You have it, but it's not the right version. You'll have to figure out where to get the newer version of libmysqlclient or use an older version of the package you're trying to install.

John VV · 09-22-2010, 03:35 PM

unless you DO WANT to take a big chance and make your CentOS 5 install unstable STAY with what is in the centOS repos

the version # may be old BUT all the security fixes ARE back ported to them

sometimes a "fix / work around" is to make a link from
/usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 > /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.16
sometimes that works

but WHAT is it you want to install and i take it you are not using yum to install it

fisher39 · 09-23-2010, 09:56 AM

Hey, I got the problem fixed. All I had to do was update MySQL to the latest version (5.1.48 stable). That put in the file that was missing.

Thanks for the help!