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FS#22513 - virtualbox-4.0.2 missing dependency libpng

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Michael Oczak (dsoul) - Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 20:32 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 21:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Just installed virtualbox 4.0.2, tried to run in headless mode but get error:

VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Operation failed (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.

ldd /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
...
libpng14.so.14 => not found
...

installing libpng helped
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 21:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  virtualbox-4.0.2-4
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 20:52 GMT
i think i had this in the past and forgot to implement it. For now i'm fixing only in trunk

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