Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga stopped working

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 �9:47 -0700, Zachary Zelinski a �it :
> Hi all, I hope I'm doing this correctly--
> 
> I have been using Ekiga now for a couple of weeks mainly because it
> works, it's easy to use, and I can use it with my Gizmo account. I use
> it on an AMD machine running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and this morning I
> was alerted to updates to certain files-- the Synaptic Package Manager
> history shows: 
> 
> "Upgraded the following packages:
> libdecoration0 (1:0.5.5~git20070912+3v1ubuntu0) to 1:0.5.5~git20070917
> +3v1ubuntu1
> libpt-1.10.0 (1.10.7~dfsg1-5~feisty.4490) to 1.10.9-1~feisty.4506
> libpt-plugins-alsa ( 1.10.7~dfsg1-5~feisty.4490) to
> 1.10.9-1~feisty.4506
> libpt-plugins-v4l (1.10.7~dfsg1-5~feisty.4490) to 1.10.9-1~feisty.4506
> libpt-plugins-v4l2 (1.10.7~dfsg1-5~feisty.4490) to
> 1.10.9-1~feisty.4506"
> 
> After these were installed, I restarted my computer (simply to reboot
> into Windows for a quick update there). When I returned to Ubuntu,
> Ekiga would not start. I started it using the terminal and got this
> message: 
> 
> "ekiga: error while loading shared libraries: libpt.so.1.10.7: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> I believe I am running Ekiga 2.0.9, and I have some issues trying to
> build the latest 2.0.11 version. What should I do? Should I remove all
> of the packages I updated and then reinstall them through the Ekiga
> download section to make sure they work with Ekiga 2.0.9?

Apparently your package manager broken the dependancies on your system.

I would do what you propose, and reinstall either using our debs, or
using the package manager (but starting from scratch).

You will have to do :
apt-get remove --purge 'libpt-*'

It should remove everything.
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