On Fri, 03 Feb 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin, in article
<xjPEf.2725$ZS3.1885@trndny05>, Jim Anderson wrote:

>I'm trying to install Nessus no Fedora Core 3. When I run
>the rpm for Nessus, I get the following:
>
>rpm -i Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386.rpm

First problem - that's the wrong version of Fedora. Second, where did
you get this version?

>error: Failed dependencies:
> libcrypto.so.5 is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
> libdb-4.3.so is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
> libssl.so.5 is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
>
>I tried installing on my FC4 machine and got the same
>error.

Try 'rpm -qa' to see what all you have got installed, and compare that
to 'rpm -R Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386.rpm'.

>I did some searhing on the web and it looks like
>I need a later release of openssl.

Not impossible - but 'libdb-4.3' is part of the stock db4-4.3.27-3 that
came with FC4... no, it wasn't errataed up, so that shouldn't be a
problem. I suspect you have a package that wasn't as carefully set up
as it should have been.

>Do I get openssl and then install it with 'rpm -i ...'
>and then install Nessus? I tried this but it did not work.

did not work... what happened, did the computer catch on fire or something?
Normally, installing the dependencies first is the cure, but sometimes you
run into a cross dependency thing, where "A" requires "B" which requires "C"
which requires "A". In that particular case, the solution is to install all
at once, and let 'rpm' hash out the dependencies.

>Does anyone have any guidance for me?

Reason I'm questioning the package is that I don't see it on the list I
have for "official" packages. Trying to install packages from others may
cause difficulties.

Old guy