[NCLUG] rpm not recognizing library

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:28:57PM +0000, bsimpson at att.net wrote:
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++.so.2.8 is needed by pgp-6.5.2-free3-rsaref.i386
>
>I copied over libstdc++.so.2.8 into /usr/lib from a FC3 installation,
>but I still get the same error.  My guess is that rpm wants to see it
>in its own database.  How do I do this?

You probably want to rebuild pgp from src.rpm so that it uses the libraries
you have installed, instead of clinging to an old binary RPM.
compat-libstdc++ provides version 2.9, but that's not going to satisfy that
dependency.

How about switching to GPG instead?  It's included with FC4.

Thanks,
Sean
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