Newest libraries not being detected ...

[mahuro]

Hi all,

I hope someone can help me ..

I am traying to install VLC on RHEL 5.5 I have installed the rpmforge repos rpms.

I get this error message everytime:
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vlc-0.9.9a-7.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package vlc-0.9.9a-7.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package vlc-0.9.9a-7.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

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the thing is I have newest version of that library installed, so I did a symblolic link to the newest library:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libdvdread.so.4.1.3 /usr/lib64/libdvdread.so.3 (64 bit lib)

and also the 32 bit just in case

ln -s /usr/lib64/libdvdread.so.4.1.3 /usr/lib/libdvdread.so.3

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then I did:

ldconfig and updatedb

but after that I keep getting the same error message. VLC should be albe to see the symbolic link to the newest library, in the form of the library it is looking for ....:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libdvdread.so.4.1.3 /usr/lib64/libdvdread.so.3 (64 bit lib)

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

Mahuro

[daark.child]

RPM does not see the actual libraries on the system. It looks for packages that provide those libraries in its package database and if they are not there, then it automatically assumes the files are not on the system. Try the instructions here. Hope they help.