Re: no shlibdeps in DEBIAN/control

[Matt Hope <dopey@quickstix.com.au>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@andago.com> wrote...

: Thanks for the hint. That's what I did and got a step further !
: 
: Problem is now that :
: 
: TATO:~/gdm-2.2.2.1]$ dpkg-shlibdeps gui/gdmconfig
: dpkg: couldn't find /lib/libdb.so.3.
: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /lib/libdb.so.3 (libdb.so.3)
: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libdb (soname 3, path /lib/libdb.so.3, dependency field Depends)
: [eric@mrmimePOTATO:~/gdm-2.2.2.1]$ ls -l /lib/libdb.so.3
: lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     eric           14 jul 18 15:22 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.3.so
: 
: Any idea ?

I got a very similar error after I had some library problems, and some
libraries got installed where debian didnt know about them.

try 

dpkg -S /lib/libdb.so.3

For me, that returns

libdb2: /lib/libdb.so.3