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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

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libgcj

I have a problem:

I use a program pdftk to merge PDF files into 1. a dependency is libgcj, part of the gcc-gcj package. It used to work always, but now it doesn.t work anymore:
pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: libgcj.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On my HD, I have a file libgcj.so.7 This number (7 instead of 6) seems to be the problem; it seems to be a newer version of gcc-gcj and libgcj. How do I fix this? Can I just rename this file?

Dusty

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Re: libgcj

Don't rename it, but try creating a symlink:

ln -s libgcj.so.7 libgcj.so.6.

More ideally, the original program should probably be compiled against the newer version of gcc-gcj; this should probably simply entail recompiling the program on your system. If its a binary package, you should probably file a bug report.

Dusty

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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

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Re: libgcj

that makes sense thanks.