Zlib installed, but not installed bug

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testing Fedora 40 on testing machine and it fails to install since it wants zlib and that is installed, but when i query on it results are not installed

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Package zlib-ng-compat-2.1.6-2.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
Package zlib-ng-compat-2.1.6-2.fc40.i686 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
phatle@workstation:~$ sudo rpm -qi zlib 
package zlib is not installed
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That’s because, in line with F40 Change Proposal: Transitioning to Zlib-ng as a compatible replacement for Zlib (System-Wide), zlib is now provided by zlib-ng, or more specifically by the zlib-ng-compat package which provides the zlib compatible interface to zlib-ng.

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Any good tips and suggestions for workarounds

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Workaround for what? What is the actual problem that installing zlib-ng-compat doesn’t solve?

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That wasn’t confusing at all !

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Well example DaVinci is looking for the zlib and flips a finger when it can’t find it for example

Second workaround is using distrobox to create davincibox where I have all files and zlib and older libs that it needs so this is tomorrow testing

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What is it actually looking for?

If it’s checking a specific package name with rpm -q then that’s not going to work.

If it’s looking for libz.so then you might need to install zlib-ng-compat-devel but again that is a really broken thing for it to do.

But really if you want help with commercial software maybe you should ask the people that sell it?

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Okey will do I will switch this query and issue to seller side then…

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I have no idea what this means. Please give specific error messages that can be commented on.

I see that the that /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 is installed in on f40 and f39.

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Distro switch to Ubuntu LTS fixes the issues can run DaVinci resolve studio and VMware no issues

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Hello, I found this and worked for me.
sudo SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ./DaVinci_Resolve_XYZ
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=199180&p=1041899&hilit=zlib#p1041899

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Link not working, but will test today this skip package check

Nevermind it was some bug and it was actually my own post where we was talking this issue

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Hi, this command worked for me:

sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps <package-file>