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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:48:28 +0200
From:      Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To:        jbarrett@amduat.net
Cc:        Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/graphics/png & XFree86-4: libpng.so.4 not found
Message-ID:  <20010926234828.A39944@zigman.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <200109210149.f8L1nOB82322@osiris.amduat.net>
References:  <1001005411.3baa21634c77b@webmail.neomedia.it> <200109210149.f8L1nOB82322@osiris.amduat.net>

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I also have problems with png... I tried reinstalling kde but now it wont
compile because it nags about libpng.so.4.... :( It wouldnt run before
either because even then it nagged about this file.

Jake, could u plz tell me which command (portinstall -??)u used to address 
this issue?

TIA



On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:49:24PM -0700, Jacob S. Barrett wrote:
> I had a similar problem.  I have fixed it for the most part by rebuilding and 
> reinstalling all ports that were dependent on libpng.  You can do this really 
> easy by using portinstall from the portupgrade port.  This is probably not 
> the quickest solution, but everything appears to be clean now.
> 
> -Jake
> 
> On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:03 am, Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> > Dear FreeBSD porters,
> >
> > A couple of days ago, I installed un updated version of png: viz.,
> > png-1.2.0. A side effect of that was:
> >
> > 209 6:50pm ~ >====> ldconfig -r | grep png
> >         212:-lpng.5 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, KDE/GNOME/etc, under XFree86-4.1.0_6, require
> > libpng.so.4, and failed to start.  To be able to access my webmail, I
> > cheated, and copied libpng.so.5 to libpng.so.4.
> >
> > As a result, X loads, but no cigar^Wimages, of course.  Well, as far as
> > webmail is concerned, no big deal.
> >
> > Has anybody else seen this?  Have I missed and/or scr***d something? 
> > Should I file a PR?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Salvo
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Jacob S. Barrett
> jsbarrett@acm.org
> www.amduat.net
> 
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