Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 16 September 2005 07:14, Pierre Patino wrote:
Questions: Is there some fine-grained tool that would have told me sooner what was going on? Am I the only one that has gone through this torture?
Since you are talking about 64 bit, I feel I have to mention the most obvious cause for this. That it's looking for a 64 bit lib but finding a 32 bit, or vice versa. The "fine grained tool" in this case would be "file". Run it on the binary and on the lib, and see if they report the same bit count
P.S. Am I blowing etiquette by posting on two groups?
yes. If you want to send to two groups, send two email
OK, no more etiquette blunders. The libraries that the binaries were looking for were indeed 64-bit, just like the binaries themselves. Thanks to the tip, I've just found that there was a mismatch between the actual libraries stored in /opt/kde3/lib64 and /opt/kde3/bin. The libraries in /lib/kde3/lib64 were 32-bit! WTF? Now I need to find out how that happened. I blindly answered yes when the nvidia script asked if I wanted to dowload some stuff...