gettext - libintl.so.6 not found

[Alex Soares de Moura]

Randy,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> >> so i fell into the trap where gettext-0.13.1 stomped on
> >> gettext-0.12.1.  so i pkg_deleted gettext-0.13.1 and tried to
> >>     portupgrade -vfr devel/gettext-old
> >> but i get problems in places like x11-toolkits/gtk20
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-gucharmap.so does not export GTK+ IM module API: Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found
> >> *** Error code 1
> >> and gettext-0.12.1 did libintl.so.5
> >> clues and hacks appreciated
> > Remove gucharmap*, then upgrade gtk20, then reinstall gucharmap.
>
> hmmm.  i may not have understood the word "remove" properly, as
> this did not work.  i did
>
>     pkg_delete -f gucharmap-gnome-1.2.0
      ^^^^^^^^^^

Try using pkg_deinstall instead of pkg_delete. pkg_deinstall is part of
the portupgrade package and pkg_delete is part of the base ports system.

alex