[CentOS] Centos 6.5 install, missing libraries: where did I go wrong?

Sat Aug 15 05:59:36 UTC 2015
Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu>

Hello everyone,

I had a CentOS 6.5 CD for a clean install, and I did a desktop install. 
Then I did a yum update to bring it up to 6.7. So far, so good.

I run a bunch of scientific programs that use C++ compilers and libraries. 
But, the programs were failing becaause in /usr/lib, the libraries simply 
weren't there. The directory was fairly sparsely populated with about 10 
directories of libraries for specific programs. But otherwise, things that 
are in /usr/lib on a Centos 5 server, such as:

libkate.so.1.2.1
libkdb5.a
libkdb5.so
libkdb5.so.4

are indeed there. These are just 4 library examples. I assume I did 
something wrong in the installation to keep the lib*.so.* files from 
installing into /usr/lib. What do I need to do next time to keep that from 
happening? Anyone have any ideas?

Gilbert

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                    ********
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