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- Subject: Fails to start: libgif.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
- From: Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 19:17:17 +0530
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20161113134717.yzmupzajpomjlb5r@localhost>
Package: fontforge Version: 1:20161005~dfsg-4 Severity: serious ~/ fontforge fontforge: error while loading shared libraries: libgif.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I guess fontforge need to rebuild against new libgif. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages fontforge depends on: ii fontforge-common 1:20161005~dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-5 ii libfontforge2 1:20161005~dfsg-4 ii libgdraw5 1:20161005~dfsg-4 ii libltdl7 2.4.6-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 fontforge recommends no packages. Versions of packages fontforge suggests: pn autotrace <none> pn fontforge-doc <none> pn fontforge-extras <none> pn potrace <none> ii python-fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-4 -- no debconf information -- Kartik Mistry | IRC: kart_ {0x1f1f, kartikm}.wordpress.comAttachment: signature.asc
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- To: Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>
- Cc: 844214-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#844214: Fails to start: libgif.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
- From: Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:35:53 +0530
- Message-id: <CAPDygey1=Dd-H3wMwi1Y4uXYsR-MAzsQS9vUdQtH7b-w+a3cWw@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: kartik@debian.org
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info> wrote: > This is weird. Fontforge depends on libgif7 and hence it does not need > libgif.so.4 but needs libgif.so.7, below is ldd output of fontforge My fault. Another installation was messing it up. Cleaned it up and now working! -- Kartik Mistry | IRC: kart_ {0x1f1f, kartikm}.wordpress.com
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