wesnoth + libboost problem

[Ginjeet]

Hello there!
I'm having a problem running wesnoth:

"
ginjeet: wesnoth
wesnoth: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_iostreams.so.1.33.1: can not open shared object file: No such file or directory
"

Installed it with slapt-get so I don't think this should occour...

thx 4 your help!

[wcs]

Strange. Make sure boost is installed, although it is listed as a dependency for wesnoth, so it should be.

Try reinstalling boost.
Or a different version of boost (if you enable the testing repos, there are two other versions).

Also see if you have libboost_iostreams.so.1.33.1 in your system (in /usr/lib, I'm guessing).
You might just have libboost_iostreams.so. You can try linking it to libboost_iostreams.so.1.33.1

But there's obviously a problem... probably with the boost package.

[wcs]

Right, I've looked at this, and the problem is that wesnoth was compiled against boost 1.33.1.
The most recent boost packages in the repos are 1.34.1 (in extra) and 1.35.1 (in testing), and those packages do not contain the library that wesnoth needs.
Slapt-get gets the most recent version of boost as a dependency, because wesnoth says "boost >= 1.33.1".

Solutions:
Ideally the wesnoth package should be recompiled against the most recent boost version in the repos.
For the time being, if you downgrade to boost-1.33.1 it will work.
You never know if this might break something else, though. It's possible that other packages depend on a more recent version, but I don't know for sure.

So, you can also keep 1.34.1 and do:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.33.1

It's ugly, but the game starts just fine.