["McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many libraries install themselves with the actual library (libsnmp.so.0.4.2), and *two* symbolic links.  The two symlinks are usually like this:

 

libsnmp.so.0 -> libsnmp.so.0.4.2

libsnmp.so -> libsnmp.so.0

 

Make sense?  Most libraries work this way.  The "no version" link should point to the "major version" link, and the "major version" link should point to the real library.  The real library should have all of the version numbers on it.

 

Just to be paranoid, it's often a good idea to run 'ldconfig -v | less' as root after you muck about with your shared libs to make sure things look right.

 

--J

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cooney [mailto:acooney@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:49 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] libsnmp.so.0

Hello,

    I'm trying to install ethereal 0.8.14 on my system running RedHat Linux 7.1. I've installed all necessary packages and I am still being told that ethereal requires libsnmp.so.0.  Seeing that package is included in ucd-snmp and my version of the package is 0.4.2 I decided to look up the name of the libsnmp package.  In my version of the RPM libsnmp is called libsnmp-0.4.2.so.  In version 3.6.1-5 of the RPM the libsnmp package is called libsnmp.so.0.  I was wondering if this means that your RPM is requiring an older package than I have installed or if there was some way you could recompile your RPM so it now requires libsnmp.so.0 or libsnmp-0.4.2.so.  Thanks for your time good morning, good evening, and goodnight.

Andrew Cooney

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