[Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Evening boys n' girls,

"What have you been up to?", I hear you all ask.  Well, let me tell you
all my adventures starting with yesterday evening... 

I found a libjpeg.rpm at Caldera's site, but that crashed X, so I
thought "there MUST be a RPM at SuSE".  Sure enough, a couple of hours
later I'd found: libjpeg-6.2.0-62.i386.rpm.  Perfect I thought.  One
command later and I found that Netscape 6 ran, yes really, but crashed
everytime I touched anything.  "Ooh, that's funny, Kmail doesn't work, and
Electric Eyes doesn't display any .jpg images, and The Gimp has gone a
bit funny..." etc etc.  I logged out and back in to X, and nothing, again
I logged out, but this time as my girlfriend (she prefers KDE you
see) and, of course X again freaked out.  I've removed the new RPM  and
put the old one back in and am now sobbing violently at my desk...

A thought:  I remember from the meeting a couple of months ago(?), that
nice man from SuSE handing out trial versions of SuSE 6.4.  Has anyone
still got one, and could they do me a copy?  Of course, I'll pay expenses
etc etc:  I've just remembered the Update System option when you boot with
it.  Surely nothing can go wrong that way.  Can it?

Thanks to everyone who took the time & energy to respond to this
thread.  Is there anything more I can do, or is this a big full stop?

Thanks again

Harvey
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