[CentOS] libz.so.1 => not found

On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:

> This is what things look like on one of my systems:
> 
> [root at centos57 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
> [root at centos57 ~]# ls -l /usr/lib64/libz.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 31 02:47 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 -> 
> ../../lib64/libz.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 31 02:47 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 -> 
> ../../lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
> [root at centos57 ~]# ls -l /lib64/libz.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Jan 31 02:47 /lib64/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83280 May 11  2011 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
> 
> If the symlink is missing you could try to manually recreate it.
> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis

The problem is that the file itself is missing as well, so no way for me to recreate the link.  Actually, libz.1.so.1.2.3 doesn't exist either.

I could try copying the file from another CentOS server, but wanted to hear everyone's opinion on that…

Thank you,
Asya