Existing Libraries not found?

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Hi!

Since I went from 10.2 to 10.3 some weeks ago, I experienced some problems during the reinstallation of some applications.

Here’s an example:
Tried to install instant player from instantreality.org which failed.
For example,YAST tells me, it cannot find ‘libHalf.so.2’

A quick ‘find’ tells me the opposite…

marvin:/usr/lib # find /usr/lib -name “libHalf*”
/usr/lib/libHalf.so.4
/usr/lib/libHalf.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libHalf.so.2

Why can’t YAST find the required library?

Thanks, Roland

2

YaST can’t find it unless it was installed from an RPM package.

rpm -qf /usr/lib/libHalf.so.4

3

Hi and thanks for our reply,

marvin:/home/rp # rpm -qf /usr/lib/libHalf.so.4
OpenEXR-1.4.0a-36

…but

marvin:/home/rp # rpm -qf /usr/lib/libHalf.so.2
file /usr/lib/libHalf.so.2 is not owned by any package

Are you saying some other non-rpm installed that library ?!
I don’t think, that’s the case because YAST can’t find so many libraries and I use rpm’s most of the time to install apps.

Could that be some problem with the rpm database?

bye, R.

4

Probably not, but if you want to rebuild the DB make a backup and then:

rpm -vv --rebuilddb

5

What kind of file ls /usr/lib/libHalf.so.2? It is probably a symlink to /usr/lib/libHalf.so.2.0.0, which doesn’t exist, and it’s no wonder your app can’t find it. You probably need to reinstall it, wherever it came from.