Re: Upgrade to kdegraphics-3.5.9-2.fc8 Breaks Things

Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kde.redhat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Richard Heck wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Richard Heck wrote:
>>   
>>> Richard Heck wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Richard Heck wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> In particular, neither kdvi nor kpdf will work now. The former gives me
>>>>> "No viewing component found", and the latter gives me "Unable to find
>>>>> kpdf part".
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> And moreover, kghostview is crashing on startup; and kview reports:
>>>> kview: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_kview.so: cannot 
>>>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>> It seems that /usr/lib64/libkdeinit_kview.so no longer exists---though 
>>>> locate reports it as being there, since it was before:
>>>> [rgheck@bootp-27 arche]$ ls `locate libkdeinit_kview`
>>>> ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/libkdeinit_kview.so: No such file or directory
>>>> /usr/lib64/libkdeinit_kview.la /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kview.la
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I seem to have this now in /usr/lib/ rather than in /usr/lib64/. ??
>>>     
>> You're multilib, it's ok to have both
>> kdegraphics-libs.i386
>> and
>> kdegraphics-libs.x86_64
>>
>>   
> The .so files seem to be in kdegraphics, whereas the .la files are in 
> kdegraphics-libs. I had both the .la files, but only the i386 .so file.
> 
>> though you probably don't really need/want kdegraphics-libs.i386
>>
>>   
> Here's the problem:
> [root@bootp-27 log]# grep kde messages
> ...
> Jun 17 12:24:01 bootp-27 yum: Installed: kdegraphics - 7:3.5.9-2.fc8.i386
> ...
> I ended up with the wrong one of those, for some reason. Uninstalling 
> and then installing the x86_64 manually fixed the problem. I take it I 
> do NOT want both versions of kdegraphics, right?

WTF is kdegraphics.i386 doing in x86_64 updates?

Hint: it shouldn't be there.

-- Rex

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