libkdeinit_kdesktop.so is not a symbolic link

[Jody Storme]

On Friday 28 July 2006 12:43, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I just did a dist-upgrade after previously 'applying the fix for the KDE
> screensaver bug' (which involved replacing the file
> /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so with a compiled version made available
> thru the kubuntu wiki) and got the following error message:
>
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so is not a symbolic link
>
>
> So now every time I install, or upgrade something to do with KDE I get
> the same error message :-(
>
>
> What is the fix for this? Anybody else noticed this error?
>
> Nigel

I've never seen this error before, but the first thing that I would try would 
be to rename the file and link to it, something like this:

	mv libkdeinit_kdesktop.so /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so.file
	ln -s /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so.file /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so

That way maybe KDE will detect that it is a symlink (even though it's still 
pointing to the original file) and not complain.

Hope that helps,
Jody