Feb
03
2010
In the past few days libpng & libjpeg have been updated from libpng-1.2.42 to libpng-1.4.0 and libjpeg v7 to libjpeg v8.
If your linux distribution have already updated the libraries to the latest version, it is very probably that all the dependable programs have been updated too.
In the case that a program (or a group of programs) needs the previous version to run properly dont sweat about it. You can easily install the previous libraries versions to an alternative path and use soft links.
Just follow the below instructions:
libjpeg
wget -c http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
tar zxvf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
cd jpeg-7/
./configure
make
# Now, you really have to became root, for the follow couple commands
make install
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.7 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7
libpng
wget -c ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.42.tar.gz
tar zxvf libpng-1.2.42.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.42/
./configure
make
# Now, you really have to became root, for the follow couple commands
make install
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so /usr/lib/libpng12.so
And thats it!