Re: problem with fonts in art backend

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 22 Sep 2006, at 07:22, Tenzin wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> I had a similar problem in SuSE 9.2, which was due to freetype (ver
> 1.3.1-1157.1). More accurately, it kept happening whenever SuSEconfig
> ran itself after installing RPM's, and one app insisted on having  
> links
> to freetype libs in /usr/local/lib when freetype is actually in
> /usr/bin.
>
> When I remove these links, GNUstep works fine, and everything using
> freetype continues to work. I can't remember what the rogue app was  
> but
> this hasn't happened to me since around February or March now, since I
> started using apt4suse.
>
> I have no idea if this is of any use to solving the problem on your

Thanks ... my system is now working ... after upgrading repeatedly  
over a period  f several days ... I guess it was just some slightly  
broken package which has now been updated in the debian repositories.