Re: firefox keeps dying with libpangocairo error
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:49:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 01/23/07 08:57, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:03, tom arnall wrote:
> >>> after a recent etch dist-upgrade, firefox keeps dying with:
> >>>
> >>> kloro@debian:~$ firefox
> >>> /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:\
> >>> /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: \
> >>> cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options
> >>>
> >> fixed it. there were files/links in usr/local/lib which i got rid of:
> >>
> >> libcairo.a libcairo.la* libcairo.so@ libcairo.so.2@ libcairo.so.2.2.3*
> >>
> >> how did they get there?
> >>
> > Hi tom,
> >
> > $ apt-file search libcairo.a
> > libcairo-directfb2-dev: usr/lib/libcairo-directfb/lib/libcairo.a
> > libcairo2-dev: usr/lib/libcairo.a
> > $ apt-file search libcairo.la
> > libcairo2-dev: usr/lib/libcairo.la
> >
> > this would indicate that these files are from 'libcairo2-dev'.
>
> Yes, but the question is how they got in usr/*local*/lib.
>
Hi Ron,
since Debian did not put them there, someone else did. Presumedly
someone compiling their own version of firefox or what ever needed those
files. Doesn't the FHS say something about /usr/local/?
cheers,
Kev
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