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cURL installation fails on RedHat Linux 7.1

From: Joe M. <mitchelj_at_dma.org>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:43:05 -0400

For anyone interested, I found a copy of cURL (curl-7.5.2-2.i386.rpm)
included with Powertools for RedHat 7.1 which fixes the dependency problem!
I'm not sure why curl-7.7.3-1 (seemingly a more recent version) still has
this problem.

> I installed curl-ssl under RedHat 7.0 with no trouble whatsoever.
> When I tried installing under RedHat 7.1 I got the following error:
>
> # rpm -Uvh curl-ssl-7.7.3-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> libcrypto.so.0 is needed by curl-ssl-7.7.3-1
> libssl.so.0 is needed by curl-ssl-7.7.3-1
>
> I tried correcting this with a couple symlinks since RedHat 7.1
> no longer has a libssl.so.0 or libcrypto.so.0:
>
> ln -s libssl.so.0.9.6 libssl.so.0
> ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.6 libcrypto.so.0
>
> I also tried running /sbin/ldconfig in /usr/lib since I saw that
> suggested in a few places.
>
> I have openssl-0.9.6-3 installed and it seems to be working fine.
>
> Unfortunately the dependency is still not met and I’m not sure
> where to go from here. Has anyone run across this and resolved it?
Received on 2001-05-28