RPM error: librpm-4.3.so

[Mjumbe Poe]

Alright, thanks.  I was able to get it working after I copied
librpmdb4.3.so into /usr/lib using rpm2cpio and cpio.

- Mjumbe

On 8/24/05, Mjumbe Poe <mjumbewu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/24/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:09:14PM -0400, Mjumbe Poe wrote:
> > > Whenever I try to run RPM, I get the message:
> > >
> > > rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.3.so: cannot
> > > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > I recently upgraded my version of RPM to 4.4.1 (along with Fedora 4
> > > from Fedora 3).
> >
> > What did you use to upgrade? anaconda/yum/apt?
> 
> I used the ISO images from online.
> 
> >
> > > While doing some package cleaning (the atrpms yum repository didn't
> > > work very well for me,
> >
> > What wasn't working?
> 
> In general, many of the atrpm package would be listed as causing
> dependency problems when I tried to update my machine.  This is, in
> fact, why I eventually upgraded from the ISOs instead of with yum.
> 
> > > so I was replacing all of the atrpm packages), I removed a package
> > > called librpmdb4.3.  I figured this would be okay, since I was using
> > > a new version of RPM with a whole shiny new rpm-libs.  But now I'm
> > > getting this error.
> >
> > Sounds like you didn't update all components of rpm to 4.4.x
> >
> > What does
> >
> > # strings `which rpm`|grep librpm-4
> >
> 
> I get:
> 
> # strings `which rpm` | grep librpm-4
> librpm-4.4.so
> #
> 
> Strangely enough, I didn't have to use --nodeps with librpm4.3 when
> uninstalling.
> 
> > > I would reinstall rpm-libs-4.3 from an rpm, except I can't run RPM.
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > You can unpack rpm packages with rpm2cpio/cpio if rpm goes
> > valhalla. You can also use rescue mode or sync the files from a
> > working machine.
> 
> Unfortunately, rpm2cpio gives me the same error:
> 
> # rpm2cpio
> rpm2cpio: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.3.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> #
> 
> I'll try from rescue mode.
> 
> - Mjumbe
>