where to find libexpat

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Paul Greenberg <pag101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using a program called Freesurfer to analyze brain volume based on
> MRI images.
>
> After typing "ldd /usr/local/freesurfer/bin/mris_volmask.bin", the
> error messages from freesurfer are"
>
> linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff4e5fe000)
>>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fa045fcf000)
>>         libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXmu.so.6 (0x00007fa045db6000)
>>         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fa045b37000)
>>         libvtkpng.so.5.2 => not found
>>         libvtksqlite.so.5.2 => not found
>>         libvtkzlib.so.5.2 => not found
>>         libexpat.so.0 => not found
>Chri
>
> and the list continues, but I truncated it at the libexpat line.
> The Freesurfer programmers suggested I locate the libexpat.so.0 RPM
> and install it.
>
> Suggestions?

Ouch - I guess they are shipping just the binaries?

This might be a bad idea, but have you tried making a symlink from
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 to /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2?

Chris