Re: Sophie install

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:25:46PM -0700, Thilanka Samarasekera wrote:
> I am having some problems during the configuration
> process. This is on a RedHat 9 system. I have
> successfully installed Sophos-sweep;
> 
> [root@roadrunner sophie-3.04rc2]# sweep -v
> SWEEP virus detection utility
> Copyright (c) 1989,2003 Sophos Plc, www.sophos.com
> 
> System time 09:21:26 PM, System date 28 October 2004
> 
> Product version           : 3.74

This is quite old. Current is at least 3.85.
You won't get IDE updates with this version of Sophos anymore.

> Engine version            : 2.17
> User interface version    : 2.07.025
> Platform                  : Linux/Intel
> Released                  : 06 October 2003
> Total viruses (with IDEs) : 84992
> 
> 
> my ./configure is as follows;
> 
> ./configure --with-user=qmaill --with-group=nofiles
> --with-savilib=/usr/local/lib
> 
> The message I get at the end of this is as follows;
> 
> checking for nanosleep... yes
> checking for location of libsavi... /usr/local/lib
> checking for SAVIsweepFile in -lsavi... no
> ** libsavi library NOT FOUND
> ** You need libsavi in order to use Sophie.
> ** Download it at http://www.sophos.com/
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?

Not looking in the list archives or at  least  try  googling  "libsavi
library NOT FOUND". You'd found this:

http://www.vanja.com/listarc/vtools/2004-March/001468.html

Summary: 

> > Make a symlink /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so to
> > /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3 and you should be fine.

Greets,
_Alain_