[collectd] Missing Dependency: librrd_th. Collectd install on CentOS 5.2

[Michael Ciesla]

Thanks Sebastian. I evenly got it working by install collectd-4.7.1 and
rrd-tool-1.3.8 packages seperatly without using yum.
Cheers,

Michael

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:46:20AM +1000, Michael Ciesla wrote:
> > I'm trying to install collectd on CentOS 5.2, however I'm getting the
> > following error from yum:
>
> > Error: Missing Dependency: librrd_th.so.2 is needed by package collectd
>
> > I have the librrd files located here:
> [...]
> > /usr/lib/librrd.so.4
>
> That looks like rrdtool has been updated (from version 1.2.x, shipping
> librrd*.so.2, to version 1.3.x, shipping librrd*.so.4) without taking
> care of its reverse dependencies. In this case, a simple rebuild of
> collectd in CentOS should do, since collectd does not use any part of
> the API that has changed between soname versions 2 and 4. Possibly
> CentOS still provides older librrd* packages as well - I don't know how
> this is usually handled in CentOS.
>
> Anyway, I think it's appropriate to report a bug against the collectd
> package in CentOS asking for a rebuild against librrd_th.so.4.
>
> HTH,
> Sebastian
>
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