Sounds like a bad package -- that RPM should *provide* libcurl.so.2. Check out rpmfind.net, download a .src.rpm and recompile it on your system. Or, try one of the newer binary packages...

(I'm a redhat guy, so can't test your exact problem, but it's all pretty much the same...)

-te

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:22:07PM -0400, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im sure this is a real newbie question, but I would really appreciate someone taking the time to explain how one should go about debugging a problem like this :
>
> rpm -Uvh curl-7.9.4-4mdk.i586.rpm produces the following output :
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> libcurl.so.2 is needed by curl-7.9.4-4mdk
>
> This is a common problem that I have (no with this .so file of course), and not only is it preventing me from installing curl, it is a general pain in my life :).
>
> Thanks in advance
> Warrick FitzGerald

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