It seems that libcaca grows unrecorded dependency on libslang if it is present in a system. I recently upgraded slang to libslang2-2.1.3 and the only dependency before the upgrade was 'most'. Now, when I run mplayer I get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libslang.so.1" not found, required by "libcaca.so.0" -- Andriy Gapon