Broken OOo

[Sam Varshavchik]

William M. Quarles writes:

> Charles Curley wrote:
>> I may have fixed the libpng issue by CDing to /usr/lib/ and making a
>> symlink:
>> 
>> ln -s libpng.so.3.1.2.5  libpng.so
>> 
>> But that might have been the wrong thing to do.
> 
> You're right.
> 
> [quarlewm at localhost quarlewm]$ file /usr/lib/libpng.so
> /usr/lib/libpng.so: symbolic link to `libpng.so.3'
> 
> I'm using Fedora Core 1.  And you?  I guess the same, since we have the 
> same versions of the libraries, but one can never be sure.

The libpng.so soft link should NOT exist unless you're compiling software 
that uses the libpng library.  You will find this soft link in the 
libpng-devel package.

Any binary that explicitly depends on libpng.so is broken, and must be 
properly recompiled.


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