ELF library not found error

[Norbert Papke]

On November 18, 2009, Peter Steele wrote:
> I just installed compat6x-amd64-6.4.604000.200810_3.tbz and that solved the
>  error for Python 2.5 and 3.1, as well as several other applications that
>  were giving that error. I'm still getting the error for a few other
>  packages though, e.g. wireshark:
> 
> # pkg_add /mnt/ports/wireshark-1.2.2.tbz
> pkg_add: warning: package 'wireshark-1.2.2' requires 'tiff-3.9.1_1', but
>  'tiff-3.9.1' is installed pkg_add: warning: package 'wireshark-1.2.2'
>  requires 'pcre-8.00', but 'pcre-7.9' is installed pkg_add: warning:
>  package 'wireshark-1.2.2' requires 'xcb-util-0.3.6_1', but
>  'xcb-util-0.3.6' is installed pkg_add: warning: package 'wireshark-1.2.2'
>  requires 'libxml2-2.7.6', but 'libxml2-2.7.5' is installed root@:~>
> # wireshark
> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
> 
> If both the 6.x and 7.x compatibility packages are installed and this error
>  still occurs, what's the culprit?

Presumably (and I am speculating), the 8.0 packages are not yet finalized and 
therefore inconsistent.  Perhaps you will have better luck after the official 
8.0 Release?

-- Norbert Papke.
   npapke at acm.org


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