From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 18:22: 1 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 18:21:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kira.epconline.net (kira.epconline.net [209.83.132.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083A437B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (carock@localhost) by kira.epconline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB82LlD09513; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:21:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from carock@kira.epconline.net) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:21:47 -0600 (CST) From: Chuck Rock To: Lim Wee Guan Cc: Chuck Rock , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 and MRTG port In-Reply-To: <20001206164810.E95385@nexus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sorry I didn't post this. I fixed it by installing the compatibility 3.x distribution from /stand/sysinstall When I did that, the libpng.so.3 was there in the libs directory. I thought maybe the answer was obvious to everyone but me, so I didn't think it was worthy of posting. Installing the 2.x also fixed one of my other problems with some software I've been using from two previous upgrades... Thanks, Chuck On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Lim Wee Guan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Chuck Rock wrote: > > I've installed FReeBSD 4.2, and also MRTG from the packages. > > > > MRTG won't run though, it complains about... > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpng.so.3" not found > > > > Looking at the png 1.0.8 port that is a dependency, it creates libpng.so.4 > > > > Is this a problem with one or both ports? > > > > What can I do to fix it? copy libpng.so.4 to .3? > > > > Hi Chuck, > > I had this problem myself when I installed Eterm. Don't know how to > solve it, but since there were no other answers, I thought you might > like to know how I "overcame" it. > > I made a symlink from libpng.so.3 to libpng.so.4 and the problem went > away. Copying does the same thing, but you waste a bit more disk > space. > > If anyone knows of a better way, I'm all ears too... ;-) > > Regards, > > Wee Guan. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message