Dear friends, please excuse my putting the following question, which is probably not directly related to the kde packages, but I have no idea whom to address alternatively; perhaps you can direct me further. I asked Ivan E. Moore II, who wrote:
> I would yell at the aethera maintainer..it looks like he has some kde3 > installed on his system. (I'm not yelling, however.) The problem: ----------- Starting aethera (from current unstable) -- or for that purpose any other kde program, it showed first with kmail -- I receive the following message: aethera: error while loading shared libraries: libkfm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and in fact: locate libkfm shows: /usr/lib/libkfm.so.2 /usr/lib/libkfm.so.2.0.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfm.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfm.so.1.0.0 As far as I know, there has never been a libkfm.so.3, there is no one on the debian site, as checked with the search engine there, and as a result I am rather stupefied. Checking with objdump, aethera uses libX11.so.6, libresolv.so.2, libpng.so.2, libz.so.1, libjpeg.so.62, libm.so.6, libkhtml.so.3, libkjava.so.1, libkdeprint.so.0, libkparts.so.1, libkfile.so.3, libksycoca.so.3, libkio.so.3, libkdesu.so.1, libutil.so.1, libkssl.so.2, libkdeui.so.3, libkdecore.so.3, libDCOP.so.1, libqt.so.2, libXext.so.6, libSM.so.6, libICE.so.6, libpthread.so.0, libmimelib.so.1, libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3, libkore.so.0, libdl.so.2, libc.so.6 Examining the transitive closure of objdump, libkhtml appears to be one culprit, the other being libkdeprint (see the output below) --These are from kdelibs 4:2.2.2-5 (testing, dated Dec. 6). However, it appears that the following libraries share a similar condition and are not really used -- although ldd says so. * libqt.so.1 required by /usr/bin/aethera, libkhtml.so.3, libkdeprint.so.0 * libkfm.so.3 required by /usr/bin/aethera, libkhtml.so.3, libkdeprint.so.0 * libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 required by /usr/bin/aethera, libkhtml.so.3, libkdeprint.so.0 * libstdc++.so.2.8 required by /usr/bin/aethera, libkhtml.so.3, libkdeprint.so.0 Any ideas ? Regards, Peter -- Key fingerprint = DDB1 E6A4 522E 1CBF 0C37 031A AAA9 FB5C 3984 CF9D --------------------------------------------- Output from objdump and ldd - Dynamic Section: NEEDED libkjava.so.1 NEEDED libkio.so.3 NEEDED libkparts.so.1 NEEDED libkfile.so.3 NEEDED libkssl.so.2 NEEDED libkdeprint.so.0 NEEDED libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libc.so.6 SONAME libkhtml.so.3 Checking with ldd /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.3 gives: libkjava.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkjava.so.1 (0x4021f000) libkio.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 (0x4023a000) libkparts.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libkparts.so.1 (0x402e8000) libkfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkfile.so.3 (0x403a2000) libkssl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2 (0x40430000) libkdeprint.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkdeprint.so.0 (0x40456000) libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x404cd000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40519000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4053b000) libkdecore.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x4065d000) libkdeui.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3 (0x407d2000) libkdesu.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.1 (0x409c5000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x409e7000) >>> libkfm.so.3 => not found libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x409f7000) libqt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqt.so.1 (0x40a05000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40b53000) libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x40c2e000) libksycoca.so.3 => /usr/lib/libksycoca.so.3 (0x40c73000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40d13000) libDCOP.so.1 => /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.1 (0x40d17000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40d4c000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40d5d000) libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 (0x40d60000) libqt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 (0x40da6000) libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x41254000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x41280000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4129f000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x412a9000) libXft.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 (0x412bf000) libmng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 (0x412e8000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x4132b000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x41330000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x41368000) Dynamic Section: NEEDED libkparts.so.1 NEEDED libz.so.1 NEEDED libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libc.so.6 SONAME libkdeprint.so.0 And ldd /usr/lib/libkdeprint.so.0 results in : libkparts.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libkparts.so.1 (0x40086000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40140000) libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x4014f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4019a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401bc000) libkfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkfile.so.3 (0x402de000) >>> libkfm.so.3 => not found libkdecore.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x4036d000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x404e2000) libqt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqt.so.1 (0x404f0000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4063e000) libkdeui.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3 (0x40719000) libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x4090c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) libksycoca.so.3 => /usr/lib/libksycoca.so.3 (0x40951000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x409f2000) libDCOP.so.1 => /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.1 (0x409f6000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40a2a000) libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 (0x40a3b000) libkio.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.3 (0x40a81000) libqt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 (0x40b2f000) libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40fdd000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4100a000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x41029000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x41032000) libkdesu.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.1 (0x41048000) libkssl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2 (0x4106a000) libXft.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 (0x41090000) libmng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 (0x410b9000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x410fd000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x41100000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x41105000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x4113d000)