I have just installed a fresh FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE on AMD64 and have installed packages (not ports) using
Some of my applications fail:
I've discovered what's going by browsing pkg() etc. but am posting the solution here in case it helps anyone else tripped up by this simple issue.
Code:
pkg install -y <package name>
Code:
$ xfe
Shared object "libpng16.so.16" not found, required by "xfe"
$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
Shared object "libpng16.so.16" not found, required by "libxul.so"
Couldn't load XPCOM.
$ libreoffice
Shared object "libpng16.so.16" not found, required by "oosplash"