Hi all. Today i've discovered via IM from Signore Iredell how to get snapshots to work on the native Linux client on Ubuntu Dapper. Here is what you must do:
1. Delete libjpeg.so from the lib folder of your SL installation.(make a backup just in case)
2. Make a symlink: ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0 libjpeg.so
And that's it! Your mileage may vary depending on your distro, so let us know how you did.
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Antonius Misfit
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08-17-2006 07:04
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Theora Aquitaine
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08-17-2006 08:46
not sure the symlink is really needed. Doesn't work without it?
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Antonius Misfit
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You need the symlink
08-17-2006 09:06
The SL client uses the libjpeg.so in the lib folder, but it doesn't work. Symlinking makes the SL client use the system's libjpeg library, which works. If you don't symlink, either the client won't start at all or you won't be able to take pictures anyway.
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Takuan Daikon
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08-17-2006 09:47
I tried this on my Kubuntu machine, and although it appears to be doing more than before I cannot find any evidence that it's actually working. Anybody know where the heck these snapshots are going?
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Theora Aquitaine
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08-17-2006 11:51
The SL client uses the libjpeg.so in the lib folder, but it doesn't work. Symlinking makes the SL client use the system's libjpeg library, which works. If you don't symlink, either the client won't start at all or you won't be able to take pictures anyway. But it should use the system version by default, unless you have several versions of libjpeg installed, so the symlink should not be necessary. |
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Drake Bacon
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08-17-2006 17:49
I can confirm this works in Gentoo AMD64.
Now only if *saving to disk* worked. |
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Zi Ree
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08-18-2006 01:10
But it should use the system version by default, unless you have several versions of libjpeg installed, so the symlink should not be necessary. I also thought, it would fall back, so I only told people to delete the libjpeg in the client's lib/ folder, but it seems that in some cases a symlink is needed. _____________________
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Jacek Antonelli
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08-21-2006 18:01
For the sake of documenting the issue for posterity, I will mention that snapshot is working for me without a symlink, but it took a bit more work than just deleteing the `SecondLife/libs/libjpeg.so' library.
I am running Gentoo on i686 architecture. After I deleted the libjpeg included with SL, snapshots still crashed the client, so I used the `ldd` command to check where the executable (`SecondLife/bin/secondlife-bin') was finding libjpeg. It turned out that the Blackdown Java Devkit/Runtime Environment keeps its own version of libjpeg.so, and because of how my system's linker path was set up, the linker was looking in blackdown-jdk's directory before it was looking in /usr/lib! I ended up renaming blackdown's libjpeg, and then SL found the right one, and snapshots started working perfectly. The moral of the story: just make a symlink, it is much easier and more reliable!  |