xfce4 desktop broken, complaining about libmd5.so.1

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Fri Apr 27 10:41:32 UTC 2007


Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
 > > Kind of embarrassing, I'm running 6.2-STABLE, and I recently used
 > > pkg_cutleaves to free some disk space. However, xfce's desktop doesn't work
 > > any more, neither will Thunar, and they both complain about missing file
 > > /usr/local/lib/libmd5.so.1. My locate database says it was there before I
 > > deinstalled all those packages, but I can't work out which ones I got rid
 > > of, nor which package libmd5.so.1 came from....
 > > 
 > > Could anyone please help me out?
 > 
 > Install /usr/ports/www/libwww.

Just a small addendum _how_ to find it out:

$ cd /usr/ports
$ echo */*/pkg-plist | xargs grep libmd5.so.1

(That approach works for most ports and files, but
not for all of them.  Some ports generate their
packing list (plist) dynamically, but fortunately
those are a small minority.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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