ImportError: libproj.so.0: cannot open shared object file

[Martin Schulze]

Martin Schulze wrote:
> Just for your information:
> 
> The most recent version of proj in Debian unstable (4.4.8-1) does not
> provide libproj.so.0 anymore, but only libproj.0 &c.  To get Thuban
> running again, you'll have to remove some (all?) .so files in the Lib
> directory and execute »python setup.py install_local« again.
> 
> Not sure if the shared library will be renamed into the .so version
> again in future versions of the proj package.

Looks like that was indeed a packaging bug which is fixed in the new
version:

proj (4.4.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use new /usr/share/misc/config.guess and config.sub instead of using
    patch from 4.4.7-3 as in 4.4.8-1, which led to wrong library so names
    (lacking the .so part).

 -- Peter S Galbraith <psg at debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:16:26 -0400

Regards,

	Joey

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