Why does yum fail with error 'symbol gzopen64, version ZLIB_1.2.3.3 not defined in file libz.so.1 with link time reference' ?

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Issue

  • The yum repolist command fails with error,
/opt/rapid7/nexpose/nsc/nxpgsql/pgsql/lib/libxml2.so.2: symbol gzopen64, version ZLIB_1.2.3.3 not defined in file libz.so.1 with link time reference

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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