Bug 5417

Summary:	Avast! Antivirus needs libexpat.so.0 for installation
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Martin Volf <yullaw>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	olivier.delaune, rverschelde
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.avast.com
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Description Martin Volf 2012-04-15 15:12:47 CEST

Description of problem:
Avast! cannot be installed, because is missing libexpat.so.0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
avast! Linux Home Edition - avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# urpmi avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm
libexpat.so.0 is missing
2.# urpmf libexpat.so.0
... no libexpat.so.0

I found a package compat-expat1-1.95.8-8.i686.rpm in Fedora 17 repository, where is a file libexpat.so.0 included.

After installing compat-expat1-1.95.8-8.i686.rpm I can install avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm and works.

Comment 1 Olivier Delaune 2012-04-19 10:59:04 CEST

For information, libexpat1-devel contains libexpat.so. Yes, it is not exactly libexpat.so.0 but it is probably the same file. Could you uninstall compat-expat1-1.95.8-8.i686.rpm and avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm and do a symbolic link like that
ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0
After that, try to reinstall avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm

CC: (none) => olivier.delaune

Comment 2 Martin Volf 2012-04-21 11:30:10 CEST

Thank you for information. But after uninstalling compat-expat1-1.95.8-8.i686.rpm and avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm, then was symbolic link created by 
ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0
I cannot install avast4workstation-1.3.0-1.i586.rpm. Same situation like before. 

I saw symbolic link is redirected to /usr/lib/libexpat.so and this file is redirected to libexpat.so.1.5.2 . So I tried to change link to this file, could not install.

If I install a package compat-expat1-1.95.8-8.i686.rpm, then libexpat.so.0.5.0 and symbolic link libexpat.so.0 are created and works for next installing.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-26 20:00:52 CEST

Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 Rémi Verschelde 2014-05-01 23:15:01 CEST

We have libexpat1 in Mageia, see e.g. in Cauldron:

[akien@cauldron ~]$ urpmf /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.
lib64expat1:/usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1
lib64expat1:/usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1.6.0

So as far as I understand, it is Avast's RPM which is outdated. You should try to workaround the issue, or contact Avast so that they update their RPM.

CC: (none) => remi

Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2014-05-01 23:15:18 CEST

Closing as per comment 3.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID