Using the Berkeley DB

[Derek Broughton]

Jan wrote:

> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> My guess is that it exists, but is not found (not in the standard
>> path) - you could put a symlink into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib and it
>> should pick it up.
>>   
> Wow, the solution of Chris works!
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> But in another Forum I read, that putting a symlink wouldn't be the best
> solution for solving this problem. What do you think of that?

Absolutely.  It's a cheap hack, and not what you really should be doing.  If 
you must, put the symlink in /usr/local/lib, not /usr/lib - at least that 
way it won't interfere with any package-generated files.  A far better 
solution is to create a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ containing the path of 
the missing library, then run "sudo ldconfig".  That said, I created a 
symlink to a library in /usr/local/lib just this morning...
-- 
derek