libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Look at however arch manages packages and find which version is
installed (if any) and which package holds it, or if it's part of
removed (currently not installed) packages, install it.
The presence of libpng14 makes me wonder where you dug up
VirtualBox or FVWM2 from ... are they packages that are
made for your distro?
If they're not, there's always the ugly kludge approach
of simply creating a symlink from libpng14.so to the 12 version
and hope the programming interface hasn't changed too much
between those versions.
The presence of libpng14 makes me wonder where you dug up
VirtualBox or FVWM2 from ... are they packages that are
made for your distro?
If they're not, there's always the ugly kludge approach
of simply creating a symlink from libpng14.so to the 12 version
and hope the programming interface hasn't changed too much
between those versions.
Cheers,
Tink
They aren't because I prefer the unstable version of FVWM and I got VirtualBox from the VirtualBox website.
I am also trying to run PlaneShift (a RPG) and it complains about not having libpng12. The latest version is very recent, so I don't have a clue why they are clinging to linpng12
(BTW, to confirm MTK358's error, I get "./pslaunch.bin: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not found (required by ./pslaunch.bin)")
Last edited by itsbrad212; 02-15-2010 at 08:22 AM.
At least I don't have to worry about FVWM anymore because I found that the "unstable" version can be gotten from the repos as "fvwm-devel". The only reason I wanted to compile is because I thought that the repos didn't have this newer version.
And I uninstalled VirtualBox (I haven't even used it), but if I ever need it I will do it via AUR so pacman will know about it, instead of me having to remember where that binary installer is all the time, in case I want to upgrade or uninstall it.
Because of this, I deleted the libpng12 -> libpng14 link, too.
I wonder why does the program specify the version it wants. Shouldn't it not care about the version and use whatever is here?
I wonder why does the program specify the version it wants. Shouldn't it not care about the version and use whatever is here?
The potential pitfall with that is that the guys
making the libraries may change the interface they
use from version to version; and that may only surface
in one out of say 200 functions; now, your program
compiled against a different (I'm not saying older or
newer specifically because they regression from your
programs point of view may be either direction) library
may work 99% of the time but display funny behaviour
you can't assess easily .... so it's safer to make it
quite clear which version of the library the program
builds against and runs as expected.
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