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1 Using SpiderOak with Qt 4.7.2
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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8 I recently updated my KDE version to 4.6, a revolutionary update if I say so
9 myself. Suddenly version 4 of KDE is awesome.
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11 All was well with this update until I tried to run SpiderOak. It booted and
12 then failed with no errors. Upon running it from command line to see the
13 output, it returned the following error:
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16 Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40702) with this library (version 0x40701) Aborted
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19 How depressing is this? As it turns out, SpiderOak versions 9810 and before are
20 intended for use with Qt from an earlier version of KDE.
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22 After some time of messing around with libraries and symbolic links, I found
23 the solution.
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25 When SpiderOak starts, it apparently does a library version check. If you check
26 the Spideroak library directory (**/usr/lib/SpiderOak**), you will find that
27 there are many libraries that presumably SpiderOak uses. At least, I thought
28 that was the case. Now I think (though this may not be correct) that those
29 libraries are there to perform the version check because if you overwrite them
30 with more up-to-date libraries, everything works. With that, here's how we do
31 this.
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33 Log in as root (or sudo bash) and type the following commands...
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36 cp /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 /usr/lib/SpiderOak cp /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
37 /usr/lib/SpiderOak cp /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 /usr/lib/SpiderOak
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40 This will overwrite the library files in the SpiderOak directory with symbolic
41 links (the files we copied were already links to *.so.4.7.2) pointing to the
42 most up-to-date versions of the libraries on your machine.
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44 Hope this helps someone. I haven't tested much to confirm that this doesn't
45 cause any problems, but I can confirm that SpiderOak is semi-running for me (no
46 bugs yet).
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49 Category:Linux
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51 Category:KDE
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53 Category:Qt
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