acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

[David Banning]

Michael Powell wrote:
> David Banning wrote:
>
>   
>> I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on
>> execution I get the following error;
>>
>> /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread:
>> error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> the file is there;
>>
>> $ cd /usr/local/lib
>> $
>> $ ls -tld libgobject*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  344082 Feb 27 19:17 libgobject-2.0.a
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     984 Feb 27 19:17 libgobject-2.0.la
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      19 Feb 27 19:17 libgobject-2.0.so ->
>> libgobject-2.0.so.0
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  235062 Feb 27 19:17 libgobject-2.0.so.0
>>
>> and ldconfig sees it;
>>
>> $ ldconfig -r | grep libgobject
>>         219:-lgobject-2.0.0 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>>         460:-lgobject-2.0.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>> $
>>
>> I have followed a few threads with similar error but have found no
>> resolution yet.
>>
>> Any pointers would be helpful.
>>     
>
> Please forgive if I seem a trifle dense, but how did you go about 
> installing? If done using the ports system, as part of the process 
> linux_compat and various linux-* ports should have installed as 
> dependencies. Perhaps the install succeeded but left out linux_load="YES"
> from /boot/loader.conf? 
>   
I installed from the ports - (FreeBSD 3s1.com 6.2-RELEASE)
but it didn't touch the /boot/loader.conf file.

Is there a way to load this without rebooting?

> Possibly it may be one of the few things that need linprocfs_load="YES" too, 
> but I doubt this because there would be a different error.
>   
I'll look at that.
> I would expect it to be looking for the library referenced above somewhere 
> below the /compat or /usr/compat (the first is a link) which is where the 
> linuxolator resides. This library should be being provided by the linux-
> gtk2-2.6.10_1 port. Since the acroread8 is a linux blob it should be using 
> the linuxolator to run.
>
>   
The acroread8 port did not install linux-gtk2

ports are up-to-date.