[ale] openssl dependency hell

[Kevin Krumwiede]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:20, Jim wrote:
> nightmares. Among the many libraries required to do the upgrades is 
> libssl.so.4 and libcrypto.so.4. Fair enough. Those are in 
> openssl-0.9.7a-1.i386.rpm and the corresponding devel package. But if I 
> install that, I'm losing libssl.so.2 and libcrypto.so.2 and dozens of 
> packages on my system depend on those libraries. In fact, some of those 

*Sometimes* you can get away with forcing it, then creating symlinks
with the names of the older libraries.  Probably not recommended for a
production system.

The alternative is to build the SRPM against the current libraries.  Or
just build from a tarball and install it in /usr/local.
 
> like 8.0, but that hasn't been a problem up until now. 

My Mandrake 8 desktop got like that, and I finally bit the bullet and
did a fresh install of RH8.  It's soooo much nicer.

Krum

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