Why don GIF and JPEG work on Slackware Linux?
You need to manually get libgif and libjpeg and compile and install them on your system. They will install by default in /usr/local/lib, so once they’re installed, you have to make sure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib or put /usr/local/lib in your ld.so configuration file. In addition, you also have to remove libgif.* and libjpeg.* from your /usr/lib directory, as these will be found first (and even if you finagle ld.so to find the other libs first, they’re still broken so remove them anyway). I think that if you go to ftp.gimp.org there’s a “support” type subdirectory that has the gif, jpeg, png, and mpeg libraries, though I’ve never gotten the mpeg stuff to compile.
You need to manually get libgif and libjpeg and compile and install them on your system. They will install by default in /usr/local/lib, so once they’re installed, you have to make sure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib or put /usr/local/lib in your ld.so configuration file. In addition, you also have to remove libgif.* and libjpeg.* from your /usr/lib directory, as these will be found first (and even if you finagle ld.so to find the other libs first, they’re still broken so remove them anyway). I think that if you go to ftp.gimp.org there’s a “support” type subdirectory that has the gif, jpeg, png, and mpeg libraries, though I’ve never gotten the mpeg stuff to compile.
