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Re: Broken Library : How to fix?



On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:57:12PM -0500, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a little trouble installing the python-base package on a 
> Potato system.
> 
> Here's where it gets up to:
> 
> (Reading database ... 30058 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking python-base (from .../python-base_1.5.2-10potato11_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up python-base (1.5.2-10potato11) ...
> python: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo y   
> 
> So it looks like libreadline is broken. How do I fix this? I can't
> even figure out which package libreadline.so.3 is part of.

You can find which package owns a file by going
to the bottom of the debian packages page
(http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) and entering the
file name in the "Search the Contents of the Latest Release"
search field. libreadline.so.3, as it turns out, doesn't
exist, but you can probably get away with creating a symlink
to libreadline.so.4, like so:

    ln -s /lib/readline.so.4 /lib/readline.so.3

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