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libpng problems--aka no icons



Just a data point that may be useful.  I see some people 
mentioning this on both lists.

Just did a full upgrade to latest unstable packages.  Then used 
Bjoern Krombholz's fix:

dpkg --force-depends -r libpng2
ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.1 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2

That appears to work.  Maybe some programs won't run now due to 
lack of "legacy" library libpng2, but I haven't found one yet.

Have to added BK's admonition to remember to remove that symlink 
when this mess gets sorted out.
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