After downloading all of the required "proposed" new packages and
Setting up libcdt5 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libcgraph6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvpr2 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libpathplan4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libxdot4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvc6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up graphviz (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvc6-plugins-gtk (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgraphviz-dev (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
the symbolic links no longer dangle because the gdk and gtk plugin shared library files are present.
Since reporting this bug TWO YEARS ago (2014-12-01), my system has moved on to
DISTRIB_ CODENAME= xenial DESCRIPTION= "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"
DISTRIB_
With the current package versions installed for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
graphviz 2.38.0-12ubuntu2
graphviz-doc 2.38.0-12ubuntu2
libgraphviz-dev 2.38.0-12ubuntu2
there are, in /usr/lib/graphviz, the two dangling symbolic links
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> libgvplugin_ gdk.so. 6.0.0 gtk.so. 6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> libgvplugin_
After downloading all of the required "proposed" new packages and
Setting up libcdt5 (2.38.0- 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ... 12ubuntu2. 1) ...
Setting up libcgraph6 (2.38.0-
Setting up libgvpr2 (2.38.0-
Setting up libpathplan4 (2.38.0-
Setting up libxdot4 (2.38.0-
Setting up libgvc6 (2.38.0-
Setting up graphviz (2.38.0-
Setting up libgvc6-plugins-gtk (2.38.0-
Setting up libgraphviz-dev (2.38.0-
the symbolic links no longer dangle because the gdk and gtk plugin shared library files are present.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> libgvplugin_ gdk.so. 6.0.0 gdk.so. 6 -> libgvplugin_ gdk.so. 6.0.0 gdk.so. 6.0.0 gtk.so. 6.0.0 gtk.so. 6 -> libgvplugin_ gtk.so. 6.0.0 gtk.so. 6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10100 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> libgvplugin_
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30636 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_
Thank you for finally fixing this problem and thank you to Jeremy for all his work in maintaining and packaging this and other packages.