Hi!

So, I am using Centos 5.2, and I installed all of the available gnome and gnome development libraries available via the "add software" menu item. Still, when running some programs, I get the following error message:

"error while loading shared libraries: libzvt.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

If I understood it correctly, libzvt.so.2 is part of some gnome libs... Could someone tell me where to find and how to install them?

Thanks!

It's part of gnome-libs-devel

Cheers

Thanks! But how do I proceed with the installation?

yum install gnome-libs-devel

doesn't work...

If yum doesn't work, then download the package locally and use rpm to install.

On my Centos 5.2 box I get
Have you gnome-libs installed? What does "doesn't work" mean? Can you post the exact error message (if any)?

Well, I tried " yum whatprovides libzvt.so.2" on my computer, and I got:

Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
* updates: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
* centosplus: centos.bio.lmu.de
* addons: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
* extras: centos.bio.lmu.de
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
Finished
Reducing CentOS-5 - Plus to included packages only
Finished
No Matches found

Any ideas?

Your configuration excludes the Base repository for some reason. Check the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and see if the base repository is enabled. Also check under /etc/yum/pluginconf.d if you have some specific configuration (for example the priorities configuration) that prevents the Base repo to be used.

Anyway, the package gnome-libs.i386 is provided by the centos.karan.org repository for my system. You can eventually install this repo and do the search again.

Useful additional repositories for Centos are listed here.

I followed the instructions provided by:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...s%2FCentOSPlus

in order to install Reiserfs support on the computer. If I understand them correctly, they don't exclude the Centos-Base-Repository, but for the sake of completness, I'll post my centos-base.repo:

# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for CentOS.
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
exclude=kernel kernel-devel kernel-PAE-*
#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
includepkgs=kernel* jfsutils reiserfs-utils
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5


And my yum.conf:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h

# Default.
# installonly_limit = 3

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d



The installation of the centos.karan.org repo did not change anything, either

This is really strange. Apart the problem with the Base repository, you can try to manually download the gnome-libs package and install using
Here is the direct link for downloading: http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/t...l5.kb.i386.rpm (provided that your architecture is i386, that is 32-bit). At least it should resolve the issue with the missing shared library!

Sorry, this does not work, either - here is the output:

yum localinstall gnome-libs-1.4.2-5.e15.kb.i386.rpm
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Local Package Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* kbs-CentOS-Misc: centos.karan.org
* base: centos.intergenia.de
* updates: centos.intergenia.de
* centosplus: centos.intergenia.de
* addons: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
* extras: centos.intergenia.de
kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
Finished
Reducing CentOS-5 - Plus to included packages only
Finished
Cannot open file: gnome-libs-1.4.2-5.e15.kb.i386.rpm. Skipping.
Nothing to do

Any ideas left? Anyway, thanks already for the help!

You sure the downloaded file is in the directory where you run the yum command? Has it exactly that name? The error above means "file not found".

Dtbzz

By any chance are you running the 64bit version of Centos?

Edit: What specific programs are you trying to run that are asking for libzvt?

It's a software that someone in our institute programmed, apparently for an older version of gnome? And no, it's 32 bit Centos and the installation worked fine this time, thanks. Now I just have to resolve the dependencies

Is there another way of finding out which package I have to download in order to resolve the dependencies besides

?