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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

Hi there.!
Since the default fonts of Arch looked quite ugly on my LCD, I read the Fonts wiki and installed cleartype packages from AUR.But now, when I try switching to runlevel 5 (I use GDM by the way), it throws up following error:

/usr/sbin/gdm-binary: error while loading shared libraries: libcairo.so.2 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I didn't edit the pkgbuilds in any way.Running "locate libcairo.so" doesn't show up anything either.
Any help guys.?

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,398

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Re: Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

Looks like you a missing a dep.

> pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 is owned by cairo 1.8.6-1

Although, I guess you probably want the cairo-lcd package in the AUR.

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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Re: Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

Installed the lcd packages, I can now enter runlevel 5, but the fonts still look crap to me.What else can I do to make them look like the way they do with cleartype on WinXP.?

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

you can use packages that have -ubuntu patches.

cairo-ubuntu 1.8.6-1
fontconfig-ubuntu 2.6.0-6
freetype2-ubuntu 2.3.7-3
libxft-ubuntu 2.1.13-3

All of them are in AUR

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

Well you have two choices, use windows XP or google for 'fonts linux ugly'

or there is a search feature on this forum, it works well.

setting a right DPI will probably make your fonts look the best no matter what packages you install or ~/.fonts file you use.

Last edited by jacko (2009-01-10 12:32:54)

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Error while loading shared libraries after installing cleartype fonts.

For cleartype, you'll want cairo-cleartype, freetype2-cleartype, libxft-cleartype from AUR.

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