Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Jos van Kan <vankan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> Did an upgrade (NOT an install from scratch) to 9.3.  Then
> started having problems trying to run Gnome-related stuff.
>
> Found the explanation.  Last year, one way or another, I ended
> up with a Gtk library in /usr/local/lib.  9.3 put that same
> library into /opt/gnome/lib.  But the upgrade hadn't cleaned up
> the previous /usr/local/lib.   

That's what happens if you don't use rpm to install packages. The
system has no way of knowing that an old version of the lib is
floating around.

I *still*
> haven't figured out why on my 9.3 system the Gnome-related
> stuff was looking for that Gtk library first in /usr/local/lib
> and not first in /opt/gnome/lib.

Because /usr/local/lib comes before /opt/gnome/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf?

Regards,

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Jos van Kan                www.josvankan.tk