Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:35:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared boject "libpng.so.5" not found Message-ID: <20100621003541.GA5799@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <op.vemh5rpeesa1c5@win7x64> References: <op.vemh5rpeesa1c5@win7x64>
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In the last episode (Jun 20), Caleb Stein said: > Whenever I try running an application that relies on GTK+ or QT, I get > that error message. How should I fix this? You must have upgraded your libpng port, and either the application or one of the shared libraries it uses hasn't been rebuilt since then. libpng.so.6 is the current version. Run "ldd -a myapplication", and rebuild anything that claims to depend on "libpng.so.5". One way to minimize damage like this is to use either portupgrade or portmaster to do updates for you. Those programs can back up old versions of shared libraries to /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so you won't get errors like that. Portupgrade will make a backup automatically, and so will portmaster if you add -w to the commandline. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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