On 13.10.2012 05:26, phanisvara wrote: > after openexr was updated yesterday from 1.7.0-2 -> 1.7.1-1, digikam failed > to > start with the following error: > > digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 used to be provided by openexr; now it's called > libIlmImf.so.7 instead. providing a symlink with the old name, pointing to > the > new one solved the problem.
Symlinks are NOT a solution, they are a very dirty hack and can blow up in your face. There is a reason why upstream developers change version numbers and this reason is that the new library is not compatible with the old one. Just rebuild the program using the library against the new version and you won't run into any trouble. -- Florian Pritz
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