Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:43:11 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3 Message-ID: <20121026164311.6a44948b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP3626767C58CD5F625E8D3DAF67E0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP3626767C58CD5F625E8D3DAF67E0@phx.gbl>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:03:11 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi All, > > I recently purchased a laptop (Intel Pentium dual core) and installed > FreeBSD 8.3-i386 on it using the 'All' canned distribution. I then > downloaded the latest ports tarball and started building them. This ports snapshot is not "in sync" with the installed world and possibly installed 3rd party programs (ports) anymore. > Some of the ports required a newer version of the graphics/png port, so > I did a deinstall and reinstall in graphics/png. This removed the > previous binary libpng.so.6 and placed version libpng15.so.15 in its > stead. Things went wrong here - the GNOME desktop started crashing with > the panel not working and practically all desktop icons gone. Exactly my experience with some libjpeg update some years ago. :-) The rule usually is: If you update a port others depend on (read: depend on a specific version), you also need to update those ports. Mixing versions doesn't seem to be a good idea. > So I > guessed that the canned version of GNOME in the installation DVD had a > dependency on libpng.so.6. Correct. > I reinstalled FreeBSD 8.3, [...] Why did you reinstall the OS? Things like Gnome or PNG libarary are separated. > [...] and copied /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.6 to > /usr/lib/libpng.so.6 before building the ports a second time. You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal with installing and updating of ports. > This time > things went a lot more smoothly. GNOME works. But Mozilla applications > like Firefox and Thunderbird present a peculiar problem - the buttons on > the Tool bar/Menu bar do not have any image on them. It seems that there is some "library collision". If you update things, update _all_ of them, in order to avoid version trouble. The best approach (in your case) would be: Install the OS, do not install anything from ports yet. Get the ports tree. Update it to the recent version. Now start installing stuff, and do it from the _same_ ports tree. Alternative: If you go with the programs installed from the media (e. g. the DVD), use pkg_add to get binary installed applications. In case you insist on compiling, get the ports tree of the _state of your installation_ (i. e. the tarball from the DVD) and use that. Do not update it. In this case, you can easily mix compiling from source and installing via binary packages. This alternative is not suggested now. :-) > While this is not > exactly a catastrophe, it is rankling to say the least. Maybe some > gentleman has faced this problem and has sorted it out. If anyone can > provide a hint on how to fix the problem, I would be grateful indeed. Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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