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firepol
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 Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: kde apps v3.5.7 complaining about libexpat.so.0: a solution |
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During the last days I was trying to upgrade kde to version 3.5.7, having the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in my /etc/make.conf file...
That was a big mistake, anyway... my story is simple, I learnt to use "revdep-rebuild", I learnt something about dependencies ... whatever...
revdep-rebuild was complaining that there were several broken dependencies because of libexpat.so.0. So what I did (to begin) was to upgrade kdelibs and kdebase, which took with them expat version 2.0.0. Then I rebuilt all my kde apps (which were built when I had expat version 1.95.
But still when I was opening kontact or some other apps they were complaining that the /usr/libexpat.so.0 file was not there. Even after emerging all the system, logging out and rebooting...
Here my ls -la /usr/lib/libexpat.so*:
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-05-28 21:36 /usr/lib/libexpat.so -> libexpat.so.1.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-05-28 21:36 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 -> libexpat.so.1.5.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127460 2007-05-28 21:36 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.0
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So finally I decided to solve the problem manually by creating a symbolic link to libexpat, as follows:
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cd /usr/lib
ln -s libexpat.so.1.5.0 libexpat.so.0
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That did the job and solved my problems. Wish I did this before, instead of loosing my time re-emergin the same packages several times, hoping they could "see" that I updated expat.
Probably some gurus will have etter solutions that this one, but if you don't have time,t ry just the symlink as I did. That should at least leave you use your applications...
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loki_val
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| This is not a good idea. Since ABI breakage occured, this can lead to weird system behaviour. |
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firepol
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| peteralf wrote: | | This is not a good idea. Since ABI breakage occured, this can lead to weird system behaviour. |
Then what would you suggest me to do, I already rebuilt all my kde packages AFTER having installed expat 2.0.0. What should I do, rebuilld expat 1.95.8, mask 2.0.0, then rebuild all my kde apps?
I can tell you that my system is more weird without the symling (no applicatiom starts correctly, but now yes) |
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