libpng issues

axslinger · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Michigan

This libpng issue is utterly ridiculous. I have been chasing my tail, compiling, recompiling, updating etc for 3 days now. I have tried virtually every fix I have found in this forum. The most recent suggested I run

/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/files/libpng-update-libs.sh
and
/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/files/libpng-update-bins.sh

(as a 'quick workaround'). Quick my ass.

and emerge the packages listed. The second one listed 15 packages. With my slow connection, that could mean another day. Including QT and kdebase, which I just finished doing a couple days ago. In fact this whole thing started because I was trying to upgrade KDE. Now I have to do it virtually all again, because of one whacked-out library? I have unmerged then remerged libpng and I still get references to libpng.so.2.

If I have somehow missed a posting on a 'reasonable' workaround, by all means point me to it. And I don't mean formatting my hard drive and reloading from scratch.

Brian

trythil · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:27 pm Post subject:

Exactly what libpng issue is this?

Library version mismatch?

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Also, merge in opera from the static ebuild rather than the dynamic one. I believe this started the problem in my case. IIRC, the dynamic version is masked now.

axslinger · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Michigan

Here is one example:

ark: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and

Could not dlopen library Knotify.la: libpng.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no xuch file or directory.

Thanks,
Brian

tsuru · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject:

It's possible that there is not a libpng.so.2 link.... do this:

trythil · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:21 pm Post subject:

Oh, well, THAT'S a hell of a lot easier to fix than re-emerging everything.
(Usually.

)

First, look for any libpng* files in /usr/lib. Chances are there will be a bunch of them: you're looking for anything that has a version number of 1.0.12-1.0.14 in its filename. (libpng 1.2.* has as libtool version number of 3, and thus symlinks to libpng.so.3. At least it does here.

) Symlink libpng.so.2 to this one.

If there's nothing there, try emerging just libpng 1.0.1*, and link.

axslinger · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Michigan

Ok, here is what 'whereis libpng' came up with:

libpng.a -> libpng12.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 15 08:40 libpng.so -> libpng12.so.0.1.2.
4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 15 08:40 libpng.so.3 -> libpng12.so.0.1.
2.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 15 08:40 libpng.so.3.1.2.4 -> libpng12.s
o.0.1.2.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226458 Jul 15 08:40 libpng12.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 15 08:40 libpng12.so -> libpng12.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 15 08:40 libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.
1.2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 201574 Jul 15 08:40 libpng12.so.0.1.2.4

So why am I getting libpng.so.2 errors? What now?

Thanks,
Brian