On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:19:46 -0400
james tate <binary...@comcast.net> wrote:

> FC15
> 
> I'm trying to install from the fedora repos  honeyd package and it 
> requires a  dependency package  libevent-1.4.so.2 which does not exist.
> 
> I did a ln -s  libevent-2.0.so.5   libevent-1.4.so.2   in /usr/lib .

The first digit on a library is the major version and indicates an API
version, so you can't just do that.

> So i now have in /usr/lib  libevent-1.4.so.2 >  libevent-2.0.so.5 >  
> libevent-2.0.so.5.0.1  .  But when i try to install   honeyd  I still 
> get the error it needs  libevent-1.4.so.2 .
> 
> What do I do ?

Ask yum

yum resolvedep  libevent-1.4.so.2
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0:libevent-1.4.14b-1.fc14.i686


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