Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:00:51 +0100 From: Armin Arh <armin@pubbox.net> To: service <service@fixer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages failing to load Message-ID: <20061125160051.GA761@pubbox.net> In-Reply-To: <4567C6EF.4040008@fixer.com> References: <4567C6EF.4040008@fixer.com>
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Look for a package called 'expat-2.0.0'.
Once you got one look into it like this
pkg_info -L expat-2.X.tar.gz
It should then state there is a '/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6' in it.
If so, install it.
Nevertheless this may fail if it uses some syscall of FBSD-5.5 not
present in FBSD5.4, but i don't think so.
If all that fails, compile it yourself, like this:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/expat2
make install && make clean
I have FreeBSD-6.2 running, but without expat2. My packages
still use expat1. Simply because i built every bit from ports,
to have no braindamage with precompiled stuff wanting newest
libraries.
Looks like this on my Desktop:
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armin@lance pkg_info -L /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.8_3/
Information for expat-1.95.8_3:
Files:
/usr/local/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz
/usr/local/bin/xmlwf
/usr/local/include/expat.h
/usr/local/include/expat_external.h
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5
armin@lance ldconfig -r |grep expat
438:-lexpat.5 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5
680:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4
armin@lance uname -a
FreeBSD lance.net.schlund.de 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #8: Sun Nov 12 21:59:06 CET 2006 god@lance.net.schlund.de:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LANCE i386
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bye,
Armin
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:30:39PM -0700, service wrote:
> uname -a
> FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 24
> 08:54:35 UTC 2006 root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIL i386
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I had FreeBSD-5.4 for about one and a half years. Loading packages with
> "pkg_add -r" was very easy. Suddenly "pkg_add -r" no longer works.
>
> Looking at freebsd's ftp sites, they got rid of the 5.4 release. They
> now have a 5.5 release. I tried downloading from "packages-5-stable"
> and "packages-5.5-stable". About 50 percent of these programs fail. I
> get error messages that say something like "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
> Shared object "libexpat.so.6" not found". I'm not sure, but I think
> files ending in "so.6", belong in version 6, not version 5. I have more
> than 10 versions of FreeBSD. I tried using packages off these CDs.
> some of them worked, but most of the time I keep getting error messages.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> bruce
>
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