Re: libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:39:46 +0000, djhack wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
> >I just started reading this thread, so I hope I'm not asking
> >anyone to rehash a lot of the discussion.
> >
> >I'm using Sarge, and I recently upgraded my gimp to
> >2.2.6-1sarge1 per the security recommendation. I used
> >"aptitude --download-only upgrade" followed later by "aptitude
> >upgrade."
> >
> >The upgrade went through without any problems, and I'm able to
> >launch gimp normally. When I do 'ldd `which gimp`' I don't see
> >any reference to libcairo2. My sources.list only contains
> >Sarge repositories, and I haven't done any apt-pinning.
> >
> >My current gimp and gimp-data packages were automatically
> >downloaded from security.debian.org by aptitude. Gimp works
> >here and is not dependent upon libcairo2 here.
> >
> >
>
> Lucky you! I tried your steps with aptitude. Alas, only to find that
> the problem still exists, and I had to go back and fetch gedit, ark,
> kdeprint, and synaptic again. I don't quite understand how these
> package managers determine how packages are "unused". (Which of course
> pulled back in a lot of the rest of the libs that were removed.)
Everything that is installed automatically to satisfy a dependency is
marked as "auto". These packages are removed again as soon as no other
package depends on them anymore. There can be screw-ups if aptitude is
used together with package managers that don't know about this extra
flag.
> I run my X11 system with enlightenment only. No KDE or Gnome. I tried
> them both, so now I pick and choose what apps I really want. Perhaps I
> am missing something in doing this?
>
> Can you send me the output from your "ldd" of your gimp package? Does
> it refer to "libpangocairo" somewhere? That lib comes from the
> libcairo2 package.
I am starting to suspect that the libcairo2 dependency comes indirectly
from some other library that you have installed. Can you check your
system for non-Debian(-sarge) libraries?
aptitude search '~i~slibs!~Odebian'
aptitude search '~i~slibs!~A(sarge|stable)'
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Regards,
Florian
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