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[Blaesch]

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!

[wuischke]

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.

[Blaesch]

Thanks, wuischke! That worked. 

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

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

What to do?

[wuischke]

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.

[Blaesch]

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?

[wuischke]

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

[Blaesch]

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

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

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