Re: libdb.so.3

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

Actually the way I got the libdb mess confiused is that you need to
upgrade libdb2 as a dependency of libdb3.  Shows how much I needed
caffeine today...:/

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:02:32PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 qmichiel@xs4all.nl wrote:
>> >perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared
>> >object file: No such file or directory
>[...]
>> >I looked of libdb.so.3 is in the /lib directory and there it was.
>>
>> You need libdb3.  the libdb.so.3 is actually a symlink, part of the libdb2
>> package.  When you get libdb3, it'll be replaced with the actual
>> libdb.so.3
>
>libdb.so.3 has nothing to do with libdb3. libdb.so.3 is library
>interface version 3 of the db (i.e. db1) library; libdb3 provides
>libdb3.so.3, which is library interface version 3 of the db3 library.
>They're very different as far as the dynamic linker is concerned, even
>if the whole situation is a bit confusing.
>
>He needs to upgrade libdb2 (where /lib/libdb.so.3 isn't a symlink,
>incidentally ...).
>
>

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