PHILOSOHPY:
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FWIW, I don't think that the problem here is so much that not all
libraries are included; if you are distributing on a CD it's fine to
include all the libs, but as a 28.8 modem user (for only about another
20 hours, but many others aren't that lucky) I certainly don't want the
libraries tossed in willy-nilly; most libraries are already on my
distribution CD and I want to get them from there.
Of course if you have a commercial product that ships on a CD you jolly
well ought to include all libraries and install them as ncessary.
My experience, though, is that they do.
I think that the bigger problem here is that a lot of software checks
for libraries specifically rather than "library of at least this
version." Let's not beat around the bush: this is just plain dumb.
GETTING IT WORKING:
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You can fix your immediate problem with
cd /usr/lib (or cd /lib, whereever they got installed), and
ln -s libpng.so.2 libpng.so.0
ln -s libjpg.so.6 libjpg.so.4
[verify which version it actually installed for each of these. I have
png so I'm pretty sure it's correct, but I don't have jpg, so that's a
guess.]
Jim Hodgers wrote:
>
> I have been looking for a good KDE news reader and wanted to install KNEWS.
> I downloaded knews-1.0b.0-1.i386.rpm from the net and tried to install.
> It failed on dependencies for "libpng.so.0" and "libjpeg.so.4" so I downloaded
> "libpng-1.0.5-2mdk.i586.rpm" and "libjpeg-6b-12mdk.i586.rpm" and installed
> them
> both with command rpm -i {filename}. Neither returned errors but rpm -i
> {Knews file} still complains about the same dependencies. What am I doing
> wrong?
> Jim
>
> Now my opinion
> I am a programmer writing Accounting software for the Windows platform
> using Visual Basic.
> One of my REQUIRED tasks is assuring that the program will load on ANY
> Windows machine
> meeting the required hardware, using either Win95 or Win98. ANY required
> libraries MUST be
> included to assure this. In the Linux, it is quite common to find that you
> must go out onto
> the net and search for and load many required libraries, sometimes even
> those won't install
> until other files are obtained. Why not provide a COMPLETE package for
> those that need it?
> All the required dependency stuff it GPLed so all you would need to do is
> acknowledge the
> sources. This seems to be a matter of some heated feelings with some
> developers, in fact
> I was thoroughly chewed out by one developer whose program I still can't
> install.
> As long as Linux continues to have these niggling issues it will remain out
> of the
> range of most users.
>
> PS I know! Visual Basic, ugg, yeck, boo hiss! It gets the job done and pays
> the bills.
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