Re: stung by dependancies

[John <rameth@orcon.net.nz>]

I had problems with some compiled GTK apps on unstable, which required 
different libs ( png problems ),
what i did was get hold of those libs and dropped them into 
/usr/local/lib/gtk_fix
i then set up scripts for the couple of programs that need to use those 
libs as follows
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#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtk_fix
/usr/local/bin/gqmpeg

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they now run properly and use the libs pointed to by LD_LIBRARY_PATH , 
you may be able to do similar with
 your program and the libs it requires.

Marlin Unruh wrote:

> I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I 
> installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main 
> programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old 
> components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form. Is there any 
> way I can install them in a debian distro? 
>
> Please help! I want to switch, bad.
>
> Marlin
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