Installing single binary from thumbdrive

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frodo

FreeBSD 10.1.

I installed single binary "easytether" for BSD. Needs libusb.so.2
FreeBSD 10.1 has libusb.so.3 and a symlink for libusb.so.1 pointing to libusb.so.3.

I contacted the devs but in the meantime, would I symlink libusb.so.2 to libusb.so.3 and cross my fingers?

If so, where would I make the link? I'm guessing /usr/local/appropriate folder.
 
Shared libraries get their version bumped for a reason. It might work or the application may crash every time when it calls functions that were changed. The right answer is to ask the authors to release a package that was compiled on FreeBSD 10 so it links to libusb.so.3.
 
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