libcurl.so.2

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Mike Hoy wrote:

> what's the deal with needing libcurl.so.2 in order to install various 
> programs on FC3?
>
> apparenly FC3 does not have libcurl.so.2 but libcurl.so.3
>
> and certain applications can't use libcurl.so.3 they must have 
> libcurl.so.2
>
> how do you solve this problem?
>
> or does one just put up with it.
>
> mike h
>
The one provided actually is newer, and may expose the same symbols as 
the previous, so you may just do a symlink to it under /usr/lib/:
su
password:
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libcurl.so.3 libcurl.so.2

That should do it.