libpng.so.6 missing

[Michael Scheidell]

On 6/11/12 1:44 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the handbook about burning DVD's and thought I would check out K3b as recommended... so I attempted to install from ports. After an hour or so of the make script building a whole bunch of stuff my patience wore out, and I bailed.
>
> ports tree csup this morning.
>
> Now it seems many things that were working great will no longer load, it's missing libpng.so.6
>
> # SciTE
> Shared object "libpng.so.6" not found, required by "libpangocairo-1.0.so.0"
>
> # qtcreator
> Shared object "libpng.so.6" not found, required by "libQtGui.so.4"
>
> # xxxterm
> Shared object "libpng.so.6" not found, required by "libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0"
>
>
> etc, etc. and so on.
>
> Anyhow, i am not sure which package 'libpng.so.6' comes from.. anyone have a tip or a pointer?
>
something is still looking for an old version of png (libpng.so.6),  the 
new version of png uses lib: libpng.so.15.
Did you rebuild all packages from source?
quick 'cheat' would be to  restore libpng.so.6 to compat library from 
your backup, or another system.


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