Hi, Gentoo!
I try to run xpdf from within Gnome. It doesn't run. On the virtual
terminal, the error message is:
xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.5: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
. However there is a library /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.7.
^
I look in /var/db/pkg/app-text/xpdf-3.02-r4/DEPENDS, and see:
>=app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3[xpdf-headers]
^^ ^^^^^^^^^
I currently have installed poppler-0.14.5-r1, which satisfies DEPENDS.
Presumably, though, it incorporate ....so.7, which is useless for xpdf.
This situation, requiring an older version of a dynamic library, can't
be unheard of. What's the canonical way of getting .....so.5?
As a matter of interest, how do you say, in DEPENDS, that you need a
library _between_ two version numbers rather than just >= than one?
Am I missing anything else important?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
