On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 02:39 -0500, Myra Nelson wrote: > [myra@gandalf abiword > unable to find libwv-1.2.so.3 > > My troubleshooting went like this: > > [myra@gandalf /usr/lib]:locate libwv > /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4 > /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4.0.3 > /usr/lib/libwv.a > /usr/lib/libwv.so This is because you built your own version of wv. Upstream did a useless soname bump without reason, which is why I reverted that (several other distributions do that also). This change saves me a bunch of rebuilds, but will cause you pain if you didn't stick to official packages.