Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:35:58PM -0400, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > > 
> > > I had this problem too.  I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib.
> > > 
> > > Later while doing an apt upgrade I got a message saying something like
> > > "libdb.so.3 is not a symlink."
> 
> FYI . . . on my pototo box it is in fact a link to another library.
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Apr 17 19:25 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.3.so
> 
> Perhaps someone with a working woody box can tell you what they have - anyone?

$ ls -al /lib/libdb.so.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       253136 May 10 15:04 /lib/libdb.so.3

This is provided by the woody libdb2 package. There is also a libdb3
package, which conflicts with libdb2 (and presumably supplies something
different).

Bob