Jim Sabatke wrote:
I've compiled libexif-0.6.10, which is required for gimp2. The old version was 5.12-27. It compiles, goes through checkinstall and rpm fine. However, apt-get is having trouble because a lot of packages depend on libexif.so.9. The new package provides libexif.so.10.
I have been there on 8.2. I updated libexif which caused a lot of dependency problems. You will either need to do a lot of rebuilding/recompiling to bring your system to a consistent state, or see if you can compile gimp2 with the original libexif. If that isn't possible, then you got your work cut out for you.
I haven't stumbled on a way to satisfy this yet. I've tried specifying everything I can think of in the checkinstall parameters.
I don't think checkinstall will let you accomplish what is needed here. One possibility is to tweak the libexif spec file to provide libexif.so.9 as well as 10, make a symlink, and see. Seems I tried this and it didn't work, but my memory is bad. I ended up recompiling everything with the new libexif installed to correct the dependency problems. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871