Re: Library incompatibility

[Ben Russo <ben umialumni com>]

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:27, Bob Hartung wrote:
> HI all,
>    I am running RH8 (Psyche) with all updates and errata installed on a new 
> workstation.  I am trying to install a DICOM storage server as a test for a 
> medical office. The install fails as it reports that libreadline.so.3 is 
> needed.  RH 8.0 installes readline-4.3.-3.rpm that provides libreadline.so.4.
> 
>    Is there an elegantly simple way of fooling the install script into 
> believing that libreadline.so.3 is actually installed.  Or is there some 
> way to install a compabibility package?  I don't want to screw up the rest 
> of the install as other evaluation packages have been installed and are 
> running nicely.
> 
>    All help appreciated!
>    TIA
> 
> Bob

Get the source RPM for readline version 3 from the RedHat 7.3 or 7.2
FTP mirrors (make sure to check the appropriate errata to make sure that
you get a version with the known bugs removed.

Then build a source RPM and install it with rpm -ivh.
The major version numbers are differen't so you can have both versions
installed with no problems.

-Ben.