[wplug] RPM question - How to make it use a newer lib file than it's expecting

[Jonathan S Billings]

Philip Reiche wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm attempting to install mysql v5.0 at home. Rpm barfs and spits out a
> warning that it can't find libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and libssl.so.0.9.6. I
> checked /lib and the reason for this is I already have the new and
> improved rev 0.9.7a of both. Digging through the fine manual, paging
> through rpm.org, and asking our friend google so far reveals no way
> around this, other than stripping out the 0.9.7 packages, installing the
> older 0.9.6, installing mysql, and then upgrading to 0.9.7 again. Or I
> could just just use the --nodeps switch but that seems like asking for
> trouble down the road when things aren't linked right.  This seems like
> something RPM should be able to figure out on it's own, but darned if I
> can find the switch to make it do it.
> 
> Beth Lynn suggests  ln -s newlibfile olderlibfilenam, and I'll try that
> when I get home tonight. I expect to see checksum errors when I do this,
> but it's worth a shot.
> 
> Any other suggestions, in case this doesn't work?
> 
> Phil

I know that RedHat provides an 'openssl096' package that allows the 
0.9.6 libraries to coexist with the more up to date libraries on your 
system.  I don't know what distro you are using, but it might also have 
this package for this very purpose.


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Jonathan S. Billings <billings at negate.org>