.so.# files
 

When installing packages on my system, whether from source or RPMs, sometimes I come across depedency failures. I'm sure everyone does on a regular basis... So, I download the package I need and install it, and it normally works out just fine.

Sometimes, however, I come across a package that needs more than one dependency, and it's when the dependencies are the same package. The first one on the list is the actual package that I need, and the second one is a file with the same name as the package that I need with an extention on it.

The extention is normally one of the following:

packagename-version.so.0
packagename-version.so.1
packagename-version.so.2

So, I install the package, but this dependency is never met, and therefore I cannot install the package that I wanted to install in the first place.

I'm wondering how I can get these dependencies met so that I can install the software I want.

ok your dist is redhat before installing packages take look inside if you are using redhat network there is file list section to look in the file somtimes names are same but there in diffrent packages.

if you write what u need we can find you the package names :)

You may also need to link packagename-version.so.X to packagename-version.so (if it is asking for packagename-version.so)