On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Frank Schwidom <schwi...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> i get the error:
>
> {
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
> pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> media-libs/libpng:0
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libpng-1.4.3', 'merge') pulled in by
> >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r2:0 required by ('ebuild', '/',
> >'x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10', 'merge')
> >=media-libs/libpng-1.4 required by ('ebuild', '/',
> >'x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1', 'merge')
> (and 27 more)
> }
>
> And i wonder that it seems not to be possible to install both libs
> (libpng-1.2.43-r2:0, libpng-1.4) in the same time. Linux is actually
> able to manage this by the lib-version and links.
>
> Did i have overseen any gentoo switch that makes is possible? Or is
> there any other option?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
This was a big problem maybe a couple of months ago? I'm surprised you
made it this far!
There are some instructions here that will likely help:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update
Good luck,
Mark
