installing pine under fedora?

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sat Oct 4 16:35:04 UTC 2003


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i finally got around to putting fedora 0.94 on my system, and wanted
> to re-install pine (yes, i really should find another mail client one of
> these days), but trying to install the most recent version of pine gave
> me a dependency error -- missing libcom_err.so.3.
>
>   a quick check suggests that that library belongs to the kerberos libs,
> but the fedora-shipped krb5-libs RPM contains no such thing.  i'm
> supposing i can try to install an earlier version of pine to try to beat
> this, but what have others done to install pine under fedora?

This is a known bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101982
libcom_err.so.3 was dropped from krb5-libs, but libcom_err.so.2 in
e2fsprogs should work instead, you probably just need to alter the spec
file slightly and rebuild.

	Michael Young





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