Re: Address book editor

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

Balsa can use gmime 2.4 or 2.6, but it picks one at compile time.   
However, try "ldd /usr/bin/balsa-ab" since it looks like that's the one  
actually throwing the error.  What distro are you on, and have you  
tried re-installing balsa?


On 2012.05.16 08:58, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I'm not trying to build.  When I go to File->Address Book->Run Editor,
> Balsa says:
>
> balsa-ab: error while loading shared libraries: libgmime-2.4.so.2:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> OTOH, ldd /usr/bin/balsa|grep gmime says
>
> 	libgmime-2.6.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmime-2.6.so.0 (0x426f5000)
>
> So I don't understand.  FWIW, locate libgmime says
>     /usr/lib/libgmime-2.6.so.0
>     /usr/lib/libgmime-2.6.so.0.508.0
>
>
> On 05/15/2012 05:16:55 PM, Frank W. Samuelson wrote:
> > Are you trying to build a package?  If so it works best to
> > grab the Fedora source rpms and work from there.  The
> > dependencies all work.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 15 May 2012, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >
> > > The address book editor appears to require libgmime-2.4.so.2. Is
> > there
> > > a reason for the particular choice of version? Fedora ships 2.5.8