I need libpopt.so.0 for libgtkhtml1.1-3-1.1.10-0.ximian.3.i386.rpm. I have libpopt.so.1 installed with popt-1.7-176.i586. I tried installing popt-1.6-281.i586 but it won't let me because of popt-1.7-176.i586. It won't let me uninstall it because it is needed by gnome, kde, YaST, etc. Is there another way of getting libpopt.so.0? I am doing this in SuSE 9.1 Personal(iso download.)


Webwolf

well..I don't guarantee this works, but you could try:

1) go to rpm.pbone.net, for example, and look for an rpm-package that contains the file you need
2) download the file to your machine
3) get a program called rpm2tgz (I think that's it's name)
4) using rpm2tgz, "extract" the rpm package to a tgz-one
5) gunzip/untar the file you got, and if you get the file you need with this method, put it where your app looks for it...

I haven't done this myself so I can't say it works for sure...and I've used that app to "extract" an rpm package to tgz-format only once, so I don't have too much experience of that too...but at least that's a try, if you can't find the file itself anywhere and if it doesn't work, and you can't get it out, you'll loose nothing.

From the directory that has libpopt.so.1 do this:
ln -s libpopt.so.1 libpopt.so.0
ldconfig
If it doesn't work you can just remove the symlink and rerun ldconfig.

If libpopt.so.1 is a symlink to a file, say, libpopt.so then just make libpopt.so.0 point to that lib too.

Another option similar to bouncers would be just use midnight commander (mc). You can browse through rpm's with mc and even copy individual files out without installing the rpm.