gnuplot and missing libpng.so.2

[billy_other]

hello,

trying to get gnuplot to run, but it seems i\'m missing a library \"libpng.so.2 i tried symlink to libqte.so.2.3.2, but no luck! Any pointers

thks
 
billy

[lardman]

Do you have any libpng* libs in /usr/lib ?

You could symlink it to libpng12.so.x (something like that), or to libpng.so.3 if you have that.

I think that libpng is built into one of the base libs but I don\'t know which (check the exact name which it was looking for - was it libpng.so.2 or libpng.so, make sure your symlink is to the correct file). Search might find it, otherwise libpng is doubtless available on killefiz.de.


Si

[billy_other]

found libpng.so.2 in /home/root/usr/lib. i   symlinked it to /usr/lib , but still no luck



billy

[lardman]

/home/root/usr/lib is a funny place to find a lib.

What exactly does the error message say?

Are you sure the symlink worked? Did you:

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s /home/root/usr/lib/libpng.so.2 .

Or something like that?


Si

[billy_other]

Hello Si,

Yeah symlink is there, created just as you\'ve  shown. I agree an odd place to have lib.



billy

[lardman]

Did you install libpng? I can\'t think of any other reason for it to be there.

Check the filesize (that it isn\'t 0 bytes), permissions (don\'t know whether they matter to tell the truth).


Si

[datajerk]

I just compiled gnuplot 4.0 and tested it with Cacko/Qt 1.21 with X/qt.  Perhaps it will help.

http://sense.net/zc/gnuplot/gnuplot_4.0.0_arm.ipk

[billy_other]

Si,

No, came preinstalled. Odd really, installed ipk version and it runs fine.all i need to do is install x11

thanks for you time and help

billy

datajerk,

Thanks installed with no problems



billy