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Hi, YoYo. |
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:36:29PM +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:45:55AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo! |
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> > I try to run xpdf from within Gnome. It doesn't run. On the virtual |
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> > terminal, the error message is: |
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> > xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.5: cannot |
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> > open shared object file: No such file or directory |
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> > . However there is a library /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.7. |
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> > ^ |
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> revdep-rebuild ? |
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> Seems like poppler has been updated, but xpdf wasn't recompiled yet to |
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> use the new lib. |
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Thanks! revdep-rebuild fixed it for me. |
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> > I look in /var/db/pkg/app-text/xpdf-3.02-r4/DEPENDS, and see: |
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> > >=app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3[xpdf-headers] |
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> > ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
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> > I currently have installed poppler-0.14.5-r1, which satisfies DEPENDS. |
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> > Presumably, though, it incorporate ....so.7, which is useless for xpdf. |
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> > This situation, requiring an older version of a dynamic library, can't |
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> > be unheard of. What's the canonical way of getting .....so.5? |
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> > As a matter of interest, how do you say, in DEPENDS, that you need a |
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> > library _between_ two version numbers rather than just >= than one? |
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> > Am I missing anything else important? |
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> you can say "&& ( >=something <something)" |
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> but my guess is, that xpdf doesn't _need_ the old version of lib, it just needs |
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> to be recompiled with the new version... |
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Indeed! |
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> yoyo |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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