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Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >From: "James Hayes" <address@hidden> > >Subject: LDM under Redhat 6.2 > >Organization: NWS Gray ME > >Keywords: 200107060655.f666tp104430 LDM RedHat 6.2 Linux > > Hi, > > Here at the NWS Forecast Office in Gray, ME, we recently upgraded the > OS on the machine running LDM 5.0.9. Previously, we had Slackware 7.0 > running LDM 5.0.9 with no problems. > > After upgrading the OS to RedHat 6.2, pqact no longer runs. I compiled > LDM 5.0.9 from the source under RedHat 6.2, but pqact still would not > launch. Running pqact by hand yielded the following: > > "cannot load libgdbm.so.1" > > Is there something in the compilation that I missed? > > Thanks, > > Jim Hayes > NWS Gray ME > > ------- End of Forwarded Message Hi Jim, Good detective work! pqact is looking for the gdbm shared library. On my RedHat 7.0 machine that library exists in /usr/lib. Apparently it's missing in your new installation, or maybe it's in some nonstandard place. Assuming it's missing, if you want to use the gdbm you'll need to get the library from somewhere. It may be on your installation disk. If you don't want to use gdbm, then go to ~ldm/src/pqact and change one line in the Makefile. Change DEFINES = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H to DEFINES = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNO_DB Then remove *.o in that directory and do 'make pqact'. This will build pqact without the interface to gdbm. But, if you do this you will need to do the same every time you upgrade your ldm. Btw, since you're upgrading, why don't you grab the latest version of the ldm? We're currently on V5.1.4. The changes in 5.1.2 were significant - I recommend you get them. Please let me know if this solves your problem. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************