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old libXrender blocks galeon2



Hey All,

I just had a major pain in the ass when I upgraded to galeon2. I was
getting undefined symbol errors for libXft.so.2:

   /usr/lib/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2:
      undefined symbol: XRenderQuerySubpixelOrder

The problem was a set of old cruft links in /usr/X11R6/lib that didn't
get removed when apt-get installed the latest version of libxrender1. 

My solution:
* rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender*
* apt-get install --reinstall libxrender1
* apt-get install --reinstall libxrender-dev

and galeon started like a charm...

Cheers,
jas.



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