[CentOS] libpq.so.4 missing

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| On 05/03/2011 04:36 PM, James A. Peltier wrote:
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | On 05/03/11 1:50 PM, James A. Peltier wrote:
| > | > Anyone else seeing this when trying to install httpd? My mirror
| > | > is
| > | > completely up to date and the machine is a fresh install of
| > | > CentOS
| > | > 5.6
| > |
| > | /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 should be a symlink to libpq.so.4.1, which is
| > | provided by postgresql-libs
| > |
| > | now, I'm running a newer postgres from the yum.postgresql.org
| > | repository, they provide libpq.so.4 via compat-postgresql-libs
| >
| >
| > I don't have PostgreSQL installed. I have no need for it to be
| > installed.
| >
| > I have run a yum -y clean all on the host which has only @core
| > installed and some necessary packages to build torque and maui
| >
| > I have tried to run yum -y install httpd no third party repositories
| > enabled and it fails with the error described earlier. I even tried
| > with
| >
| >    yum -y install httpd --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=base
| >
| > no dice. I'm trying a different mirror on a VM just to be sure it's
| > not me
| >
| 
| Do you have any "exclude=" items in your
| /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo or your /etc/yum.conf file ...
| specifically is postgresql-libs (or postgresql*) excluded?

Yup!  That was it.  Looks like someone went and update the package sources to include exclude=postgresql*, but why does Apache need postgresql-libs anyway?

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James A. Peltier
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