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Title: Cannot install Amule
Post by: Blaesch on February 15, 2009, 04:16:20 PM

Hello aMule community,

I am using Ubuntu 8.10. Installing amule through "Install and Remove Applications" does not work because it says that there is a conflict with other software. Under Synaptic it says that I have to ged rid of the "libgd2-noxpm"-package, but I guess it is rather important.
I spent hours googling the problem but still haven't found anything useful.  :'(

Has anybody an idea what to do?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: wuischke on February 15, 2009, 04:25:11 PM

If you search in synaptic for libgd, you'll find a libgd2-xpm package. Install it and replace the libgd2-noxpm package with it. Then it should work. (I don't use Ubuntu/Debian, so please excuse if I'm wrong.) Ubuntu should do this automatically.

XPM is a picture format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap) and libgd (http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page) a library for dynamic graphic creation. One package is with XPM support, the other without.

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: Blaesch on February 15, 2009, 04:57:37 PM

Thanks, wuischke! That worked.  ;D

Unfortunately aMule still doesn't run. I get the following error in the terminal:

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amule: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.17.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What to do?

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: wuischke on February 15, 2009, 05:02:11 PM

Is this an official Ubuntu package? If yes, please update the repositories information (this is the left-most icon in synaptic or "sudo apt-get update" in a terminal) and upgrade your system (I forgot how this is done in synaptic, but you can use "sudo apt-get upgrade", I believe.).

If it's not an official Ubuntu package, the first solution is to search the correct package for Ubuntu 8.10. The quick-and-dirty solution is a symlink for libbfd, but I would try to avoid it.

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: Blaesch on February 15, 2009, 05:10:28 PM

Yes, it is the offical one. I updated but nothing happened - there was nothing to update.

It seems that I must use a symlink for libbfd. How is it done?

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: wuischke on February 15, 2009, 05:42:41 PM

Mh, I'm confused. I just downloaded the aMule package for hardy (that's 8.10, isn't it?) and there's no dependency for a libbfd at all. And it's a very old version of aMule.

Please try http://www.amule.org/amule/index.php?topic=16370.0 instead.

Symlink: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libbfdinstalled version.so /usr/lib/libbfd-2.17.so

Title: Re: Cannot install Amule
Post by: Blaesch on February 15, 2009, 06:06:36 PM

Finally it worked! I repeated the whole installation process according to the threat you cited.  ;D

Thanks for your help, wuischke, und schönen Sonntag noch!  ;)

Edit (Stu): ..., and have a nice Sunday!