Can't install package because of libraries

[yggdrasil]

Hi all,

I just wiped my old install from my Lenovo G555 and freshly installed 4.8/amd64. I installed my packages, everything seemed to work quite nicely. Then I wanted to test out the current gnash-packages. This was when it started with the library-errors. From that point on, even packages of programs that work cannot be deleted and then reinstalled without errors like

Can't install dnstracer-1.9 because of libraries
|library c.53.1 not found
| /usr/lib/libc.so.56.0 (system): bad major

Google doesn't seem to find anything useful. Any hints? Thanks in advance.

[J65nko]

See http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgFAQ

[jggimi]

When you mentioned current, did you mean the -current flavor of the OS? If so, read FAQ 15.4.1. It applies to such a situation.

[yggdrasil]

No, when I wrote "the current gnash-package" I just meant the one that is prebuild for the 4.8-release version of the OS. I have NOT used ports at all at that moment. Sorry, it was late last night and I didn't catch up on the double meaning of "current".

I just tried out the ports system (based on a downloaded ports.tar.gz, so it should definitly be in sync with my 4.8-release), that seems to work. At least I could build a working dnstracer out of it.

I'm very much thinking about reinstalling again. Should I decide to do so: can you think of any information that I should grab beforehand that might help the developers?

[jggimi]

I don't think the developers need be involved. It appears to me that your problem comes from using a $PKG_PATH variable pointing to the wrong release.

In my nearest mirror, /pub/OpenBSD/4.8/packages/amd64/dnstracer-1.9.tgz contains the following in its +CONTENTS file:

@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.2 2004/09/15 18:17:39 espie Exp $
@name dnstracer-1.9
@comment subdir=net/dnstracer cdrom=yes ftp=yes
@arch amd64
+DESC
@sha 9l6wjru1wA2O+puxVXk+oSeJ8jTomo7NAWfJCepnchM=
@size 371
@wantlib c.56.0
@cwd /usr/local
bin/dnstracer
@sha JEopCsBHa5YNYXaJaXAYWnDgZ55I1a4RsD6KpOAbMkw=
@size 28064
@man man/man8/dnstracer.8
@sha TYAlq02h0K3Mj0UcUP1j9WWfgD/i03NzhSJLy1R3VPE=
@size 7081

The same package in /pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/amd64/ contains:

@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.2 2004/09/15 18:17:39 espie Exp $
@name dnstracer-1.9
@comment subdir=net/dnstracer cdrom=yes ftp=yes
@arch amd64
+DESC
@sha 9l6wjru1wA2O+puxVXk+oSeJ8jTomo7NAWfJCepnchM=
@size 371
@wantlib c.53.1
@cwd /usr/local
bin/dnstracer
@sha C4Rr92eX0w71SrsPQgqDRoMAYJJK29VU+gZ3kmwm1I0=
@size 27848
@man man/man8/dnstracer.8
@sha TYAlq02h0K3Mj0UcUP1j9WWfgD/i03NzhSJLy1R3VPE=
@size 7081

Looks like operator error to me.

[yggdrasil]

Turns out that, yes, I am indeed to stupid to be allowed near a computer. Long story short: installed OBSD, set PKG_PATH, installed my usual packages, then I unpacked a backup of my homedir, which of course overwrote my newly defined PKG_PATH *facepalm*

Sorry for wasting your time.

[jggimi]

Not a time waste at all.

Been there, done that.