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Upgrade killed X Missing libffi.so.6

Hi there

I wanted to see what cuurent looked like and used slapt-get

After it all installed i restarted and now x is dead

It says cant find shared libffi.so.6

Sorry cant give the whole error , typing from my phone :(

Regards

Lawrence

You are missing libffi package which was recently added to -current.

Instead of blindly upgrading a better idea is to carefully read the ChangeLog and use slackpkg as follows:

Code:

slackpkg update

slackpkg install-new

slackpkg upgrade-all

slackpkg clean-system

in -current this library is provided by the libffi package. But the shared version previously included in gcc-java has been removed, see changelog dated in Mon Jun 25 05:17:48 UTC 2012.

My guess is that somehow slapt-get misbehaved about this update.

Anyhow slapt-get's usage is *not* recommended to upgrade Slackware, better use slackpkg instead. Let me quote "man slackpkg"

Code:

Slackpkg can be used to upgrade the whole distribution.

      The usual way is to do:



            # slackpkg update

            # slackpkg install-new

            # slackpkg upgrade-all

            # slackpkg clean-system

For now, check if libffi is installed (version included in -current and if not, install it.

EDIT audriusk was faster than me...