Will changing this file mess up DSL?

Forum: Apps
Topic: Will changing this file mess up DSL?
started by: nickelplated

Posted by nickelplated on Oct. 12 2006,01:33

Hey guys, what's goin on? I'm updating the Tor extension and privoxy has a new dependency that I need to ask about.

/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.3 which is needed by privoxy is present on DSL already but it's a symlink to /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.3.10.0, and for Privoxy to work right it needs to point to /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.3.12.0 instead.

So I need to know is if anybody knows if my extension replaces this symlink with one that points to the newer version of libpcreposix will it mess up anything else on a DSL system.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 12 2006,04:36

If it's a newer version of the same library it's probably not going to break anything, particularly since it's a minor upgrade. If it was *.so.4 i might be a little more concerned.

But that's not saying you won't have trouble....can't really say until you try it.

Posted by nickelplated on Oct. 12 2006,09:57

Okay cool, thanks. I'll give it a go and see what I can see.