Re: Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote:
> I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following
> error:
>
> dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb
> "mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries"
> "libz.so.1: cannot open"
>
> Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in /usr/X11R6/lib because it's not part
> of xbase. Also, just running "mkfontdir" also gives the same error". Is it
> broken ?
The "xbase" you have installed (which contains mkfontdir) is indeed broken,
as it doesn't declare a dependency on zlib1g (which contains libz.so.1).
According to the changelog of the current version of xbase in "frozen", this
was fixed in 3.3.2.3a-1 (Sun, 23 Aug 1998).
HTH,
Ray
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