Bug 87850

Summary:	tuxpaint looks for outdated library
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robert Persson <ireneshusband>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Persson 2005-04-03 16:17:03 UTC

tuxpaint-0.9.13-r1 wouldn't start because it wanted libdirectfb-0.9.so.20, when the current version is 0.9.so.21.  I got tuxpaint working by making a symlink from libdirectfb-0.9.so.20 to libdirectfb.so.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-03 17:16:28 UTC

>I got tuxpaint working by making a symlink from libdirectfb-0.9.so.20 to libdirectfb.so.

Don't do this. At best you end with lots of dead symlinks in your system. There's also the chance that Portage or helper scripts do not play well with them. 

Portage isn't capable to resolve reverse dependencies (yet). Use `revdep-rebuild`.