libpng.so.6 missing

[Waitman Gobble]

Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote ..
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Michael Scheidell
> <scheidell at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and 'pkg_chklib -o | grep libpng |
> sort'. This will provide a list of ports that need to be re-installed
> so that they will be linked to the new libpng. As pkg_chklib reports
> on every file that references the old libpng, you may see ports listed
> several times, once for every executable or shareable that references
> libpng.so.6.
> 
> This will really fix the problem. Pulling in a copy of libpng.so.6
> might make things work, but may fail if more than one version of
> libpng is linked to different shareables or executables.
> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
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Thank you, I appreciate the information. I will add 'replace-packages' in my package-update script.

-- 
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA