[TAG] Yikes.

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> All of a sudden, lots and lots of stuff - including 'vi' - is crashing when I try to bring it up. The error message I get is "error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
> 
> Worst of all, grepping the Debian ls-lR doesn't show any such thing - and searching the Net has lots of people having the same problem and not being able to find a package that contains it.
> This is _not_ sounding good.
> 
> Folks, if any of you could take a look in your /usr/lib (that's where 'strace' tells me these progs are looking for it) and send me a copy of your libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 - *assuming* that somebody somewhere has it - I'd be very grateful. Meanwhile, I'm quite annoyed and puzzled - how the heck can so much stuff depend on a lib that's not available???
> 
> Sigh. I hope I don't end up having to reinstall my entire system. That would be a really, really big problem while I'm on the road.
> 

New version of gvim? Pango is Gnome's framework for internationalised 
text (bidi, strange fonts, etc.), Cairo is a vector drawing library 
(like DPS or Apple's Display PDF (Quartz?)). All text in Gtk is now 
rendered through Pango, so everything that depends on Gtk in any way is 
going to depend on it.

It doesn't seem to be in Debian yet.