Problem loading Xfce-4.2.0 on Slackware-10.1

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed May 4 23:01:53 CEST 2005


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Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
>> What does ldd gives on xfce4-session? That should tell you what dynamic
>> libraries are used.
> 
> 
> Olivier,
> 
>   Both glib2 and gtk+2 are listed. But, ...
> 
>   libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40595000)
> 
> ... is part of the problem. The version of libglib-2 in /usr/local/lib is
> from 2003 while the version in /usr/lib is from today. Aha!
> 
>   Now there's another problem similar to the first one. I suppose that I
> need
> to ensure the proper libs are in both /usr/lib (where the packages
> installed
> them) and /usr/local/lib.

No, you need to ensure that there's only one copy of the proper lib on
your system.  /usr/lib is generally the preferred location, though IIRC
Slackware may do stuff differently.

	-brian
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