Kernel-Panik.com » libexpat http://www.kernel-panik.com/wordpress science, technology, linux, howto's Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:49:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Gentoo libexpat libexpat.so error simple fix http://www.kernel-panik.com/wordpress/2007/12/03/tip-gentoo-libexpatso-error-simple-fix/ http://www.kernel-panik.com/wordpress/2007/12/03/tip-gentoo-libexpatso-error-simple-fix/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:26:00 +0000 Jorge_S http://www.kernel-panik.com/wordpress/2007/12/03/tip-gentoo-libexpatso-error-simple-fix/ While upgrading an old gentoo box I encountered this error:

xgettext: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried fixing it with revdep-rebuild tool but it failed too. Through some research I found this is a common error consequence of a broken update process (nothing is perfect in this life) due to a circular dependency.

But you don’t have to worry, there is a simple way to fix this:


kp ~ # emerge –unmerge –quiet expat gettext
kp ~ # emerge –quiet expat gettext

After this your emerge processes will run smoothly again.

-=kp=-

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