On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Cox wrote: > On Monday, Nov 12, 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > Call me crazy (or more likely, ignorant), but what you are saying makes > > no sense to me. Mozilla 0.9.5 and Galeon (both from Cooker) required the > > libpng3 (from Cooker) in the first place! They shouldn't need to be > > recompiled. And I have had no problems with other apps using the older > > library, since both libraries currently exist on my system. > > > > What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong > > version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images. > > Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there > > something I am missing? > > What you should have done was download the Mozilla .src.rpm, and rebuild > it. If you had libpng2-devel installed (you might have to install some > other -devel .rpm's), it would then require libpng2, not libpng3. Right > now the one from Cooker requires libpng3 because that's what it was > built against. As you found out, forcing an update from libpng2 to > libpng3 is a bad idea... > > Generally it is best to rebuild anything from Cooker if you want to try > it out (unless you're running a scrictly Cooker system to begin with). > > (I know this was an old message but better late than never.) > > I have both libpng2 and libpng3 installed here, there is no need to force an update they are 2 different libraries. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org
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