Re: symbolic links

Re: symbolic links

[Peter]

Hi Steve,

thanks for your elaborate explanation.

sos22@cam.ac.uk said:
> First: These errors are almost certainly not caused by problems with
> binutils. They would be reported during the installation of binutils,
> but they probably weren't caused by that.

Correct, it is /sbin/ldconfig giving the errors which apparently is run after 
the installation of binutils.

sos22@cam.ac.uk said:
> so it's probably safest just to ignore them unless they're leading to
> problems elsewhere.

That is what I am doing since there seem to be no problems.

/usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5 resides as well in /usr/lib as a symbolic link 
to /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2.

sos22@cam.ac.uk said:
>  However, you only need to care about this if /usr or /usr/local are
> on different partitions to /lib

They are all on different partitions seeminly unhindered.

I don't dare to play with libraries and leave their possitioning to RedHat 
during installation or to some programs installed in /usr/local.

Regards
-- 
Peter


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: symbolic links

[pa3gcu]

On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:03, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when reinstalling binutils-2.10.91.0.2-3 which apparenly got corrupted I
> received the following messages:
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.2 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/liboaf.so.0 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libgtkextra-0.99.so.1 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.2 is not a symbolic link
>
> How do I go about that?

AFAIK the libs;
/usr/lib/libkdeui.so.2
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
/usr/lib/liboaf.so.0
Should reside in /lib and there should be s symbolic link in /usr/lib to lib 
for each libary.
Possably when thoses libs are placed into the proper directory then ldconfig 
possably will create a symlink altho' i am not sure.

The libs in /usr/local i suspect you have installed yourself, i suggest you 
read the README and INSTALL files for qt and gtk and pay attention to the 
options for ./configure 

I am always very careful when it comes to upgrading libs as "more often than 
not" problems arise, sometimes to the point of rendering your system 
unuseable because one missed a seemingly small point in one or another README.

>
> Thanks and regards

--
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

symbolic links

[Peter]

Hi,

when reinstalling binutils-2.10.91.0.2-3 which apparenly got corrupted I 
received the following messages:

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.2 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/liboaf.so.0 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libgtkextra-0.99.so.1 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.2 is not a symbolic link

How do I go about that?

Thanks and regards
-- 
Peter

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs