On 01/23/2012 05:25 AM, Mervyn Hammer wrote: > Would anyone be able to help me understand the following curiosity? > > I installed =net-analyzer/netcat-110-r8 (USE="crypt ipv6 -static") > without apparent problem but running it produced: > > "nc: error while loading shared libraries: libmix.so.0: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory." > > A quick check of emerge.log showed dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 installed > without error, so I ran a deep world update followed by a --depclean > and revdep-debuild: revdep-rebuild identified a broken dependency > for netcat and reinstalled it automatically (same version), stating > that the breakage had been rectified. Re-running revdep-rebuild, > however, revealed that the problem still existed. I unmerged both > libmix and netcat and re-emerged them (libmix first). Neither > complained and logs show nothing of note. After unmerging and > re-emerging both libmix and netcat (libmix first) revdep-rebuild no > longer found a broken dependency for netcat. Still, however, netcat > gave the same error (above). I temporarily "fixed" the problem by > creating a symlink (/usr/lib/libmix.so.0 -> /usr/lib/libmix.so) > to give netcat what it says it is looking for but this feels like a hack > for some that I would presume should work cleanly by design.
Very strange indeed. I just installed both packages and I have no libmix.so.0 either, yet everything works. No idea what's causing your problem, but I agree it's a problem I'd want to solve. I'd try running ldconfig -p and lddtree /usr/bin/nc to see where the .0 is coming from. (lddtree is from pax-utils).
