I just made the error of trying to upgrade the gimp using pkgin again. It seems like every time I use pkgin to upgrade my installed version of either gimp or libreoffice a library issue like this pops up and breaks something important.
I'm running NetBSD 9.0 on amd64. When I attempt to run X I get an error: /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: shared object "libffi.so.8" not found and X will not start. mutt will not let me compose an email, vim fails to start. Fortunately I was able to ssh into sdf.org to send this, as I have no idea what all else won't run without libffi. I have tried: pkgin install libffi It indicates that it's installing libffi-3.4.2nb1 and gives no errors or warnings. After doing that I don't see a copy of libffi.so.8 in /usr/pkg/lib. When I try: pkgin remove libffi It indicates that there is "no such installed package libffi" Any ideas on how I can resolve this? Would it be a bad idea to try to compile and install libffi locally from /usr/pkgsrc/devel? It seems like pkgin itself is having issues, is there something I can do to troubleshoot that? Should I risk trying to upgrade pkgin (using pkgin or compiling in /usr/pkgsrc)? In the bigger picture, how do I avoid getting into this situation in the future, just avoid pkgin? What are the good alternatives? Thank you, Bruce -- Behold, we must sully the fresh snow with footprints in order to get anywhere. (Ursula LeGuin)
