xine fails with following error message: xine: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory On my system there is only libcurl.so.3 available provided by curl-7.13.1. In curl-7.12.0-r2 there was a dosym added (see bug #58317), which is gone since curl-7.12.3. Symlinking libcurl.so.3 to libcurl.so.2 fixes this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 9 2005, 23:38:37)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fPIC -DPIC" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fPIC -DPIC" DISTDIR="/lan/freigabe/gentoo" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpgeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg tcpd tetextiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb videos wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
revdep-rebuild should fix that problem