Re: up2date error message

[Tim Grossner <tg@cityscape.net>]

Hmmm...did I post to the newbie list by accident?

I maybe should have framed the question differently. Heres another try:

What software could up2date be trying to install that depends on 
libpisock.so.4?

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Mike808 wrote:

> Tim Grossner wrote:
> > Anyone know what I need to do to resolve this dependancy error? I dont
> > understand what is causing the problem...
> 
> Hmmm. Lets read the message you included.
> ...
> > Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> > There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:
> > A package providing libpisock.so.4 could not be found.
> 
> Hey, maybe you need to install some RPM that contains this
> "libpisock.so.4" thing. You think? :-)
> 
> On a more serious note, though, do a find on /lib and /usr/lib
> for libpisock.so. Usually, ordinal numbers are attached to a shared
> library's name to disambiguate versions. So as to avoid Linux being
> afflicted with the equivalent of "DLL Hell" that afflicts other popular
> commercial OSes that people wasted good money on.
> 
> Do an 'ident' on your libpisock.so. See if it is version "4", maybe.
> If it is a higher version, then this RPM is looking for an older version
> that you don't have.
> 
> See if you can find the canonical source for this module and get an
> RPM of just that library or package that contains that version.
> Install it, and then re-install the newer version. You should have
> the older library still on your system, then, and with the right
> extension.
> 
> As a quick try, you can create a symbolic link between libpisock.so
> and libpisock.so.4 so that when you retry the RPM installation, it
> will locate this library - it will be the current version, so hopefully
> they haven't changed the APIs too much.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Mike808/
> 




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