fons@kokkinizita.net writes:
Hello all,
Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs, xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing it. This didn't help for emacs, but adding a symbolic link in /usr/lib (to the wrong library !!!) made it work again. But I've been unable to get gnuplot working again, and this is one of my most essential tools.
So what's the Arch way to solve this ?
I find it extremely strange that updating a library removes the original - never seen this on any other distro. Nor is there any need to do this.
Ciao,
Arch is a rolling distro, so it doesn't keep older versions of libraries (except in special cases such as Qt3 and Qt4). The Arch way would be updating your system running 'pacman -Syu' and getting the new version of these packages. Also, check if the mirrors you're using are up to date.