gtkspell problem in Severn

[vincent]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:53:23 -0400
Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com> said:

> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 20:41, vincent wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:55:53 -1000
> > Warren Togami <warren at togami.com> said:
> > 
> > > When I attempt to run gaim-0.66 from Fedora on Severn using
> > > gtkspell-2.0.4-1 (included in Severn), it fails with this message.
> > > 
> > > gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkspell.so.0: cannot
> > > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > 
> > Did you update from AYO rawhide? I did that and it broke a few things.
> > what I did to get gaim back was to delete aspell aspell-en pspell and gtkspell.
> > then installed the old one and it worked.
> > 
> > Another problem that I cant fix is SSL is messed, I can't install devel package
> > for some source that needs it. I'd have to delete some 150 apps that need ssl.
> > Things like 'passwd' which are critical. last time I do something stupid like
> > update everything to rawhide.
> 
> This was easy to fix actually... just don't your ssl libs.  :P  I also
> had to downgrade cvs.  Something with the new krb5 libs I think; I can't
> install them (dependency errors), but some apps apparntly are compiled
> for them, their depends aren't set to only be usable with the new
> version, and the ABI changed.  Yet another wonderful example why
> Windows' DLL Hell is a poor reason to move to Linux.  :P
> 
> All the old packages you've installed are in /var/cache/apt/archives if
> you're using apt-rpm, can be a life-saver.  ^,^
 
Yep its that krb5 file that was stubborn. you said:
"This was easy to fix actually... just don't your ssl libs."
did you mean "just don't delete them"?
Cause when i tried to update krb5 by force though apt-get it wanted
to drop tons of packages. what packages did you rpm -e to get
ssl back in shape?
thanks.