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Topic: Will changing this file mess up DSL?, libpcreposix.so.3

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nickelplated Offline

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Posted: 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.

mikshaw

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Posted: 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If it's a newer version of the same library it's probably not going to break anything, particularly since it's a minor upgrade.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.

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