Re: pgadmin3 and fc6

Try --nodeps instead of --force.

Hopefully that should tell it to ignore any package dependencies.

tyson wrote:
> I tried using the --force and it still throws the same conflict.  For 
> some reason it can't locate that libpq.so.5 link  Not sure what else I 
> can do!
>
> Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>> twenger26 wrote:
>>> Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>>>  
>>>> twenger26 wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> I saw a previous post where someone had the same problem as I, but 
>>>>> their
>>>>> solution didn't work for me.  I am trying to install pgadmin3 of 
>>>>> FC6 and
>>>>> I
>>>>> keep getting the error:  "libpq.so.5 is needed by 
>>>>> pgadmin3-1.6.1-2.i386". I
>>>>> have two versions of postgresql on my system, but I am currently 
>>>>> using
>>>>> the
>>>>> newer version of postgres which contains "libpq.so.5" in
>>>>> /usr/local/pgsql/lib.  I made sys-links to this file in /usr/lib and
>>>>> usr/local/lib, but when I try to install it I get the same error.  Is
>>>>> there
>>>>> some other way to get pgadmin to locate this postgresql library.  
>>>>>         
>>>> Try linking the libpq.so.5 library in /lib as well.
>>>> Failing that, edit /etc/ld.so.conf, add "/usr/local/pgsql/lib" to 
>>>> the bottom, and run "ldconfig."
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> Sorry, I meant to say I had it in the /lib directory as well.  I tried
>>> running ldconfig with what you said and it didn't work doing it that 
>>> way
>>> either.   When I run ld it says:  "/usr/local/pgsql/lib is not a known
>>> library" and the rpm still can't locate the libpq.so.5 file. 
>>>   
>>
>> Ah sorry I've just re-read your original e-mail and thought you meant 
>> the error was when you ran PgAdmin, not while trying to install the RPM.
>>
>> I believe this is because the client libraries weren't installed via 
>> the RPM package manager (that's the problem I had back when I used 
>> Fedora.)
>>
>> Try doing a "force"'d install - (see rpm --help), I think it's 
>> something like "rpm --force -i /path/to/pgadmin.rpm".
>>
>> You may get other libraries, particularly OpenSSL, that also need 
>> linking to /lib and /usr/lib etc.  That worked for me on FC5 with 
>> PgAdmin 1.4.3.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Andy.
>


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