On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:19:41 -0700, Gary Krupa wrote:

> I'm running slackware v.2.4.18. I tried to install a recent version of
> espgs so that I could run cups with my epson printer. There was an error
> message saying that a certain library file was missing or couldn't be
> accessed. So I upgraded the libraries with pkgtool. I went from having
> version 2.2.5.so to v.2.3.5.so for all shared library images.
>
> I don't know whether this messed up my system or not. Programs have run
> fine and commands have executed with the more recent versions of
> ld-linux.so.2, libc.so.6 and so on. Unfortunately, although cups appears
> to run ok, I still can't print anything in Linux. So I'm wondering if
> the newer libraries are responsible, since an older cups filter program,
> rastertoprinter, has a date stamp of 2002 and the libraries are dated in
> Sept. 2005.
>
> I don't know how to replace the shared library images that the symbolic
> links point to. Would someone please explain to me the procedure for
> doing this? I tried doing it with ln -sf <file> <file> for individual
> library images, and I couldn't execute commands afterwards. Or would it
> be better to upgrade my software to work with the new libraries?

as root:
# ldconfig

and
$ man ldconfig

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/Thomas