Can't get it to start

Right. I'm running the latest version of Novell Open Suse and I've just installed. The program does not seem to start.
I installed it in the directory /home/pyro/Games/Second_life. The program doesn't start at all. I looked in the log file and found the following:
"bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Is there a dependancy that I havn't installed that SL needs to run?

Thanks allot

I had the same problem with Fedora Core 5.
The problem was, FC5 installed libdb-4.3, but Second Life is looking for version 4.2. I was able to fix the problem by creating a link to the newer library, like so:

# ln -s /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so

Or course, you'll have to make sure you have libdb installed, and check where it's located in the Suse distro. I've never used Suse before, so you're on your own there.

Hope that helps,
Alison

I had the same problem when I started.
You need to install db42 (Berkeley DB database library Version 4.2). It wasnt installed on my Kubuntu rig.

I also got the error about not being able to find libdb-4.2.so. I am running SuSe 10, so I did a search for that file with YAST. This file is available with the distribution, but not installed by default. So I just checked the box and let YAST install it for me.

Unfortunately, it still didn't work. I am not sure why, but I suspect it may be because I am running on a 64 bit system. I have the x64 versions of everything installed, including the x64 version of libdb-4.2.so. By default, YAST installed this to the /usr/lib64/ folder.

I tried linking to it in the /usr/lib/ folder, and also in the /lib folder that unzipped with second life, but all to no avail. It just keeps saying it can't see the library. (Incidentally, I just unzipped the download into my home folder and tried to run it as-is...is that not correct?)

Do you think this version is simply not 64 bit compatible? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There is information in several threads about getting the game to work on a 64-bit distribution. Look around

On a 64 Bit system always install the 32 Bit variants of the libraries needed

See also:
http://stux.wikiinfo.org/moin.py/FAQ#faq_2_library
http://stux.wikiinfo.org/moin.py/FAQ#faq_2_library_64

the reason this error pops up is because most of the time we have a newer version installed, so like Alison said, just create a symbolic link and things will work.

having the same problem on FC5, where idid you insert that code?

That's a command. Run it from a terminal, as root.