Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
Thanks for all comments. I have both libdb2 and libdb3 installed. Following the comment below I changed the symlink like this: debian:/lib# ln -s libdb2.so.2 libdb.so.2 debian:/lib# ls -l libdb*lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 12 23:30 libdb.so.2 -> libdb2.so.2-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233488 Apr 18 2002 libdb.so.3lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 24 10:06 libdb2.so.2 -> libdb2.so.2.7.7-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262812 Apr 18 2002 libdb2.so.2.7.7 But that didn't go down well: debian:/lib# apache Syntax error on line 222 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so into server: /lib/libdb.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so)So, I think I'll stick with ln -s libdb.so.3 libdb.so.2.Is it possible that somehow a symlink got deleted as part of some deb being (un)installed? In the meantime, if it ain't broke ...?
definitely possible. Try: apt-cache depends apache apt-get -f install --reinstall apache (and others) which should replace your depends- libraries. somethign like:apt-cache depends apache | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk '{print $2}' | apt-get install --reinstall -
might do it. :> -g
Best Ivan Ken Weinert wrote:On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:From: "Ivan Uemlianin" <iau@ukfsn.org>I had a perfectly good Apache installation; broke it (by accident) and hacked a fix. But I'd like to know what happened and how to fix it properly. The error I was getting is: debian:/# apache apache: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryIf I recall the original email correctly, you almost had the right fix. The problem is that libdb.so.2 is supposed to be a generic link for version 2 of the library to the specific version 2 library that was installed. For example (and I know I don't have the numbers exactly correct) you said you had libdb.so.2.1.0 - that's the release of the version 2 library that was installed. You should have symbolically linked libdb.so.2 to libdb.so.2.1.0 - I think you linked it to the version 3 library (libdb.so.3.x.y) which might work in most cases, and might always work for your particular program. However, changing a major version number implies an interface change, or at least some incompatibility with the previous version. I'm not surprised that uninstalling a package doesn't restore the link, but as Ivan said, reinstalling should restore the link as that will be one of the post-install operations. HTH
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