Re: [LUG] ldconfig ... is not a symbolic link

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:30:51 +0100
Adrian Midgley <midgley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Setting up libvolume-id0 (0.125-7+lenny3) ...
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.0d is not a symbolic link
> 
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libXvMCW.so.1 is not a symbolic link
> 
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 is not a symbolic link
> 
> 
> Should I care?

Depends what use those libraries and whether these are the *only*
warnings you get. Was this a snippet or a complete listing?

If it was complete, you could do worse than look up whether these
libraries exist (at those SONAMEs) in Debian and reinstall the packages
concerned.

On my system, two don't exist:
$ ls /usr/lib/libavcode*
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52  /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52.20.0
etc.

One does:

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0
libmagic1: /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0

libmagic1:
  Installed: 5.03-1
  Candidate: 5.03-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.03-1 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/main Packages

So, by my reckoning, you would need:

$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install libmagic1 file

(file is the main reverse dependency of libmagic1)

$ apt-cache rdepends libmagic1|wc -l
50

Otherwise, there could be problems running any of those 50 packages.

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