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Re: Problems with libfontconfig



On 16 Feb 2003, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 01:42, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > /usr/bin/kdm_greet: relocation error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1:
> > undefined symbol: FT_Get_NextChar
>
> I have had a fair number of these bug reports.  I asked a few of the
> submitters if they'd compiled freetype locally, and of the people who
> responded, the answer was always "yes".
>
> If you have, *please* remove your locally compiled copy.  In general,
> you should never have Debian packages use locally compiled software.

Well, I haven't compiled a copy locally.  The installed version info from
dpkg -l:

ii  libfreetype6   2.1.3-9        FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  freetype2      1.4pre.2001102 Dummy package for transition to libttf2.
ii  libttf2        1.4pre.2001102 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font Engine, s

Pat
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