centOS Security Center yum install dependencies failing

Question

I am running a centOS 7 virtual machine and trying to install an RPM package for Security Center 4.7.1. The yum installer fails to find the install packages for the dependencies libexpat and libreadline, however I do have expat and readline installed. I don't understand this because it seems that the Security Center RPM is looking for packages of the wrong names. This link is a screen shot showing the yum install abort, the lack of installed packages required and the packages I do have installed relevant to the problem... centOS VM screenshot

Any suggestions on how to remedy this without forcing the install and risking non functionality of Security Center?

Answer 1

The package you are trying to install needs

libexpat.so.0
libreadline.so.5

but your installation has probably (from what I can see)

libexpat.so.2
libreadline.so.6

It will be difficult to install this package; I would recommend you to search for a newer SecurityCenter package.

for experts: there is probably a way to work around this; if you can manage to install an older libreadline and libexpat rpm side by side with the new ones; but that might be risky because there are probably some conflicts and updates might not run too well...