Installing IMAP

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu May 20 21:53:18 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 20.05.2004 schrieb Paul D. Brown um 22:55:

> I had a similar problem installing something and found somewhere a
suggestion
> to symlink libcom_err.so.3 to libcom_err.so.2.  I did that and it appears to
> have worked, though I don't know exactly what would go wrong if it didn't.
> Sorry I don't remember more specifics, but maybe that will give you something
> to try.
> 
> Paul

That is mostly ever a bad idea as the "missing" library indicates that
the software intended to install is not for the platform you try to
install on. You won't know what might happend if you force the install
this way. In worst case you loose data!

Alexander


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