libpng.so.6 missing

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jun 12 03:33:02 UTC 2012


On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:

> I ran pkg_libchk and it looks like a whole boatload of packages need 
> to be replaced, so I decided to skip to the chase and give the update 
> script a 'replace' option.. it checks the package version available in 
> the packages directory on the freebsd site with what's installed, if 
> there's a newer version it downloads it and does the MD5 check, 
> creates an update.sh script to replace (the update script doesn't 
> actually do any udpating!) Anyhow, with 'replace' it will either 
> replace the existing or use the newer if available. I've been using 
> this script to update the system and it works pretty good for me, 
> except when I veer off path and get into ports like with my libpng 
> issue. :)

There is a pkg_upgrade command in the bsdadminscripts, too.  However, 
pkgng will change all that soon.


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