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What is the cause of the "Missing Dependency: libpq.so.4" error and how do I fix it?

Asked by HappyEngineer in CentOS, Linux

Tags: centos linux libpq.so.4

Running "yum install subversion" gives me the dreaded "Missing Dependency: libpq.so.4" error. As soon as I saw it I wanted to slit my throat because the last time I encountered this I had to go through hell manually downloading rpms and forcing them to install (ignoring depencencies) until I got things working.

Can anyone explain what actually causes this error? Yum is a package manager which manages dependencies. Shouldn't it just install something if it's not installed?

This page tries to address the problem:
    http://linux.bgsnow.com/tag/libpq-so-4
however I can't uninstall postgres because I am using Postgres. But, I did try changing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo as it described, but it didn't seem to help.

My OS is CentOS-5.
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