Comments on: Howto Install pine mail client under Linux

By: John J. Felczak

John J. Felczak — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0000

FWIW it seems to have become pretty much impossible to find libldap.so.2 in any package that will install under current linux distributions without itself having dependencies on other packages which conflict with packages already in the distro. Apparently libldap.so.2 has been superseded by more recent LDAP libraries, but existing pine RPMs still depend on it. I was able to hack my way around it and get pine installed by symlinking libldap.so.2 to libldap-2.3.so.0.2.31.

1. Run a test install to find out what dependencies are needed:
rpm -ivh pine-4.64-1.i386.rpm
Note what dependencies it complains about.
1. Find and install needed packages providing *all* other dependencies *other than* libldap.so.2 first.
2. As root, chdir to /usr/lib and ls -l libldap.* to find most recent libldap. On my CentOS 5 box it was libldap-2.3.so.0.2.31, yours may differ.
3. ln -s libldap-2.3.so.0.2.31 libldap.so.2 (substituting the libldap in your /usr/lib directory for libldap-2.3.so.0.2.31).
4. Force rpm tool to install your pine rpm without checking dependencies:
rpm -ivh –nodeps pine-4.64-1.i386.rpm
This latter is needed because rpm will still fail the dependency despite the symlink, presumably because its metadata tells it that libldap.so.2 was never installed. Be sure you have previously installed and resolved any and all other dependencies besides libldap.so.2!

This enabled me to complete installation and get pine running. No guarantees how well pine will function with this hack.

Good luck!

By: ronnie

ronnie — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:46:44 +0000

what should i do to install mail client

By: Errie

Errie — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:54:48 +0000

Trying to install pine on our linux mail server but the
# yum install libldap.so.2 command give the following error:
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package libldap.so.2 available.
Nothing to do

Can I go to the next step or the is an alternate command to get this LDAP?

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:33:51 +0000

UofW site states “Pine is no longer under active development. Consider evaluating its successor, Alpine, which supports all of Pine’s functionality and more. ”

Here’s how to install it:

Go here and get your RPM for the proper dag repo: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

Import the key with this command:
rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

Then run:
yum install pine

It will install Alpine, which is the same thing but better.

By: jacky.li

jacky.li — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:10:15 +0000

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By: jacky.li

jacky.li — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:08:15 +0000

still have no use…..
it appears this error messages as following:
[root@rhel5 /]# rpm -vih pine-4.64-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.4 is needed by pine-4.64-1.i386
libldap.so.2 is needed by pine-4.64-1.i386
libssl.so.4 is needed by pine-4.64-1.i386
before that , I’ve installed compat-openldap by yum. it works. still need those three liberarys to install pine….
how should I do next ? please give me a hand, thank you!!!!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:19:07 +0000

Yep or simply link

ln -s /var/lib/libldap.so /var/lib/libldap.so.2

if libldap.so already exists on your system in the /var/lib/ dir…

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:36:29 +0000

try: ‘yum install compat-openldap’ This may get you the library you need to install the pine rpm.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:28:31 +0000

You can try passing the –nodeps option to rpm, there’s no guarantee that it will work though. I am on rhel 5 what I did to get it to work was goto http://web.mit.edu/software/linux.html and download the rhel5 rpm. It still complained about a dependency, some kerberos thing, I’m just using this for local system messages so I don’t care a bout kerberose so I gave it the –nodeps option and it installed and it runs just fine. Hope that helps

By: Adel Barazandeh nia

Adel Barazandeh nia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:31:38 +0000

i have same error on centos 4.4:

# yum install libldap.so.2
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: libldap.so.2
Nothing to do

By: Rod Templeton

Rod Templeton — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:57:30 +0000

I downloaded the rpm with wget, but I’m told that I need 3 additional files. First one I was able to get via yum, but with the second, I get this:

Would appreciate any feedback or advice. Thank you.

By: rokko wing

rokko wing — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:10:51 +0000

Great Help! It just took 3 mts for me !!