Hey all,
Chapter 6. Installing basic system software, Bzip2-1.0.2.
Had been proceeding along fine,the last successful commands were...

cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2
cp -a libbz2.so* /lib
ln -s ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so
rm /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2}
mv /usr/bin/{bzip2recover,bzless,bzmore} /bin
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bunzip2
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bzcat

went on to next section, diffutils-2.8.1, from sources dir

root:/sources# tar -xvjf diffutils-2.8.1.tar.bz2
bzip2: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar: Child returned status 127
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Dear hmonster,

Here are some mundane things to check.

- Were you in /sources/bzip2-1.0.2 when you ran those last successful commands?
- Check that /usr/lib/libbz2.so link. Does /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 definitely exist?

Let me know if this helps.

- Ben

> Here are some mundane things to check.

> - Were you in /sources/bzip2-1.0.2 when you ran those last successful commands?
> - Check that /usr/lib/libbz2.so link. Does /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 definitely exist?

Let me know if this helps.

- Ben [/B][/QUOTE]

Hey Ben, Thanx for the reply.
Sorry for the lateness of the reply, just got power back after a week,(thank you Frances)
I've had plenty of time to think and read about it, and those were some of the things I was going to check, especially the link.
Wanted to find were the sym link was. Now if hurricane Ivan can leave me alone for awhile I'll see where I went wrong.
Thanx again

I am using Fedora FC1, and wanted to try dar for backups.

./configure failed when installing dar. It asked for libbz2, which I eventually found in bzip2-devel. Installing bzip2-devel fixed ./configure, but the make failed with a downlevel message: configure.ac:2: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required

When I complete the install, I'll write up the procedure in LQWiki.