GIMP(1) don't run

[Lars Eighner]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> When I want run GIMP(1) it say:
>
>> gimp
> Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "gimp">
>
> How I can solvent this problem ?
>


Check to see whether you have installed devel/pcre.  You almost certainly
have. You probably updated devel/pcre either intentionally or by installing
something that depended on the new version.

UPDATING 20120204 indicates that there is a way to update devel/pcre so that
the old shared libraries will be preserved.  That, however, does not work. 
(Does anyone ever test stuff put in UPDATING?)


So, in /usr/local/lib make a symbolic link to libpcre.so.1 from libpcre.so.0
.

That's not the "right answer,"  but it will work.

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