There's nothing wrong with installing a library with a different SOVER (as you did), there's everything wrong with then linking the old SOVER to the new one. That was (as you discovered) your only mistake here. It's perfectly fine to have multiple versions installed.
Debian and Ubuntu will move to libpng 1.6.x at some point, probably, but we're in no rush to port the entire world either. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1191195 Title: Cannot launch banshee: Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1191195/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
