[ILUG] Trying to resolve a dependency.

[David Wilson]

On 21/08/07, Darragh <d at digitaldarragh.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install a package that depends on libasound.so.2.  It is
> expecting it to be in /lib however in SuSE it is located in /usr/lib/
>
> In /usr/lib there are three libraries that look like this:
>
> I've tried making sim links to these in /lib/ but still the rpm will not
> install.
>
> Do any of you have any suggestions as to where I'm going wrong with this?
> I'm running SuSE 10.2 with all updates applied.

It sounds like the rpm you have hasn't been built for SuSE. You can,
although you shouldn't get into the habit of doing it, use "rpm -Uvh
--nodeps" to get past the error. Assuming the version of libasound the
package was linked against is binary compatible with the version on
your machine, the program may just work.

Note that using --nodeps for even a single package might cause other
things to start complaining or throwing errors. If that happens, just
"rpm -ev" the package again.


David.