On Thursday 03 January 2002 06:40 am, Bjoern Krombholz wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:50:03AM +0100, Laurent Rathle wrote: > > So I didn't remove libpng2 but I simply renamed > > the symlink libpng.so.2 in libpng.so.2.old and I made the > > symlink you mentionned (ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.1 > > /usr/lib/libpng.so.2). It works. > > Really? Run ldconfig, this should change the so.2 symlink back > to the real 2.1.0.12 library when libpng.so.2.x.x.x is found. > > > Bjoern
But, if you do remove the package libpng2, then apt-get won't do any further upgrades, due to the many packages depending on libpng2. So, maybe a minimum-impact, short-term solution is to INSTALL libpng2, and then rm or mv the file /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12 Then make the symlink as above ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.1 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 Now, I believe since it worked that way here, running ldconfig (as is done by many upgrade setups) will not mess things up. The downside, of course, is that anything linked against the removed library won't work, including quite a bit of gnome stuff. But that downside was already there with the changed symlink. This may work for those, like me, who use kde almost entirely. Maybe this mess will be cleaned up soon, but maybe not. It has seemingly provoked flames and the resignation of Ivan, our stellar maintainer. -- Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Francisco, California USA GPG KeyID=A2ACE692 GPG Fingerprint=BE4A C1B8 EB0D 8FD9 737D CE4A 1E56 BF9B A2AC E692
