Re: Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 15:37:56 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>>
>>> I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[...]

>>  dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1
>> ii  libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

So far, so good...

>> ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
>> 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fb2000)
>> 	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7f03000)

Here is your problem: You have a non-Debian (and most likely outdated)
version of libfreetype.so.6 in /usr/local/lib/. Get rid of it and run
"ldconfig" as root.

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