Re: Issues with GPS on Xubuntu

[Martyn Pike <joe@somewhere.org>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:18:51 -0700, David Sauvage wrote:

>> I do get a warning on startup about missing libpng12.so - related ?
> 
> In the case the libpng12.so library is missing
> ---------------------------
> 
> On Debian & derivatives Linux distributions, you can easily know to what
> package a missing file belongs with apt-file.
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install apt-file
> $ apt-file update
> $ apt-file search libpng12.so
> libpng12-0: /lib/libpng12.so.0
> libpng12-0: /lib/libpng12.so.0.42.0
> libpng12-dev: /usr/lib/libpng12.so
> lsb-build-desktop3: /usr/lib/lsb3/libpng12.so $ sudo aptitude install
> libpng12-dev libpng12-0
> 
> The latter command will install the libpng12-dev & libpng12-0 packages
> and thus the libpng12.so missing library. Then relaunch GPS (GNAT GPL)
> again to sort out if that was the problem.
> 
> That _should_ solve your problem.

Thanks David. That did indeed solve the problem.