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Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5



On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 04:17:28PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and 
> >>/usr/lib are update in /usr/lib.
> >>I currently have XFree  4.5, when the library libfontconfig1 was update 
> >>to version 2.3.2-1 was also updated
> >>the file  libfontconfig.so to the version 1.0.4 but in the XFree 
> >>(/usr/X11R6/lib/) this library still be the version 1.
> >>The problem came we we use programs like Gimp that must at least version 
> >>1.0.2  of this library. I solve this
> >>problem by link the libfontconfig in /usr/X11R6/lib to the newest 
> >>library in /usr/lib. That is the solution or that
> >>is a Bug in Debian System ??
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I assume that you're installing XFree86 4.5 by yourself, since it wasn't
> >packaged for Debian.  In that case, local installation conflicts are
> >your problem to sort out.
> >
> > 
> >
> I see,  you are absolutely right.  Thank you for you explanation.

Just out of curiousity, any particular reason why you would want to use
XFree rather than Xorg?


Regards: David
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