libcurl.so.2

[Mike Hoy]

that worked!

thanks.

mike h

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 23:22 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>It may or may not work, depending on whether the program(s) you are
>trying to install make use of the APIs that have changed between
>versions 2 and 3 of the library.
>
>A much better solution would be to install the genuine libcurl.so.2:
>
># rpm -Uvh http://www.city-
>fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/Mirroring/compat-libcurl-7.11.2-2.i386.rpm
>
>This package is designed to co-exist peacefully with libcurl.so.3 from
>FC3's curl package.
>
>Paul.
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