[CentOS] RPM complaining it needs .so files, while these are actually present

Sat Aug 29 19:54:51 UTC 2009
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

RedShift wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> When I try to install a package I built myself (java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64.rpm - took the java-1.6.0 srpm from jpackage and bumped the version number), it complains:
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: libodbcinst.so()(64bit) is needed by package java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64 (java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64.rpm)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libodbc.so()(64bit) is needed by package java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64 (java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64.rpm)
> 
> 
> However, I definately have these files:
> 
> 
> [root at centos5 x86_64]# ls -l /usr/lib64/libodbcinst*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  270528 Jan  7  2007 /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038232 Jan  7  2007 /usr/lib64/libodbcinstQ.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Aug 29 20:59 /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so -> libodbcinst.so.1.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Aug 29 20:58 /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.1 -> libodbcinst.so.1.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   78088 Jan  7  2007 /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.1.0.0
> [root at centos5 x86_64]# 
> 
> 
> (I left out libodbc*, I have these files as well but it would be too much and useless to post here)
> 
> 
> Why isn't the dependency management realizing I have the files needed?
> 

Are the files that are there installed via an RPM and are they in the
RPM database?

If you installed the files manually via a make; make config; make
install, then they will not be in the RPM database.

What does this say:

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so

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