I use Slackware 10.2 with the default 2.4 kernel and I recently updated to current using swaret. I wasn't really paying attention and updated while still logged in to KDE. Unfortunately, I used the -a switch and didn't realize I was going to update from KDE 3.4 to 3.5. Everything went fine as far as the update was concerned but now when I log in to KDE my startup "music" skips a little and also Firefox and Mozilla fail to start. When I start Firefox I recieve this error:

/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: un bol: g_object_compat_control

I removed the firefox package and reinstalled it but it changed nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

Did you install...

l/cairo-1.0.2-i486-1.tgz: Added cairo graphics library for GTK+2.
n/openldap-client-2.3.17-i486-1.tgz: Added client libraries and
binaries for LDAP authentication. (Thanks to Eric Hameleers for
help with the ./configure options).
ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21-i486-1.tgz: Added linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21.
This package replaces the sgml-tools package and should contain the
essentials needed to handle modern Linux Docbook/SGML documents. Huge
thanks are due to Stuart Winter for doing most of the work on transitioning
Slackware from the old sgml-tools system to this one! :-)

See http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub.../ChangeLog.txt

These are 3 new packages that Swaret won't install on a '--upgrade'. If you have dependancy checking enabled in Swaret, it should have errored out on the cairo libs.

Thank you. Unfortunately, after I installed those 3 packages, I still have the same error.

you could try swaret --dep

it may help locate missing dependencies

tobyl

Samething happened to me...I upgraded with Swaret and now Firefox/Mozilla/Gaim won't work...Some missing libs...

I'll have to try to see what I can do to fix this.

thanks

EDIT: I'm running the swaret --dep and will report back if this helps or not.

I too also have the same problem, mozilla, gaim wont run on all 3 of my comps that I upgraded. I slackpkg'ed the upgrades and now i have to use konqueror bahhhhh.

Read the changelog before running swaret

Start the broken apps in a terminal and it ought to give an error to what libs are missing. Search for and install them

I had problems with xine because I didnt upgrade Mozilla. I hope these get compiled against Firefox soon, or have the libs as separate packages. Both Xine and Gaim depend on them.

I can't get swaret working at all they say use installpkg, but you can't because its not a .tgz file, its a tar, and when I run the doinst.sh or whatever, it tells me to rename the swaret.conf file, even though its already renamed!

And its showing libcairo.so.2 is missing. For both Firefox/Mozilla.

I quick search on linuxpackages.net didn't find it, and I did check google...but I'm holding out for swaret --dep will fix it. The funny thing is that I've uninstalled Gnome cause it takes up too much resources on my older machine (I run Fluxbox). And alof of the output on the screen points to Gnome...Not good...

I'll have to use Lynx to get it cause firefox/mozilla are blown out of the water.

BTW, where is the changelog to read from the message above and how can a person figure out what libs they will need when they go to install packages from either swaret or slap-get?

thanks

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../ChangeLog.txt

I only use slackpkg so I don't know but I think I read that slapt-get -deps might work?

You need to install cairo.

Since your using -current, use the cauro package from -current.

Sometimes, swaret depp fixes things. If notm, though, it usually points you in the right direction. It will tell you what deps are missing (based on ldd). The next step is to figure out which package has those deps. If you are dealing with official Slackware packages, the deps should be in some other package. The package browser on the Slackware site is a good tool to help figure things out.

Just re-install any required libs, regardless of if they are apart of GNOME or not. If swaret --dep says you need a lib, uo need it. You can verify this even without swaret. Just run ldd on the file that has the dep. You'll see a "not found" for the file that swaret lists.

This is easier:
If you are using swaret, after a swaret --update, check out /var/swaret/.cache. There, you will find a copy of the most recent ChageLog that you have updated against. Also, you can check ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../ChangeLog.txt .

Everyone who is moving to -current, it is very important to read the ChangeLog. There are several removals, additions, and name changes (none of these get handled by swaret).

Also, don't forget to:
Any files this lists have to be dealt with. Don't just delete them. Don't just rename them. Now what they are and how to handle them.

Exact same problem. The SWareT package is .tgz.tar, and I can't figure out how to untar it so it's just .tgz and at the same time NOT a directory. Whenever I untar it it becomes a directory, and won't install through installpkg, while when you try to install the .tgz.tar, it won't work either.

Rename it to end in .tgz

*edit just tried this but will not install

EXACTLY...someone clear this up for us.