yum and linked libs

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:10:41 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

> Does yum have problems with links (ln -s) updating mplayer from atrpms
> and this happens
> 
> Package mplayer needs libGL.so.1, this is not available.
> Package mplayer needs libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1, this is not available.
> 
> So I ls -l on the libs
> 
> [david at reddwarf david]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Jul 14 12:11 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.0.6106
> 
> [david at reddwarf david]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 25 Jul 11 15:30 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 -> libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.6106
> 
> I see they are nvidia libs but that should not affect yum,I ran ldconfig
> to no effect.How do I get around this

You need to check whether the files/links are available in the
RPM database. Because that's what RPM is interested in.

  rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
or:
  rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libGL.so.1  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1

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