Kirya [.net]

Thanks to Nikita V. Youshchenko for providing a solution to “fix” the bug(s) that currently hits libfreetype6 and OOo in Debian.

Here is his proposal:

• putting a copy of older libfreetype6.so.6 somewhere in the filesystem,
• starting OOo with path to that library added to LD_PRELOAD variable.

You can download the older version of libfreetype from snapshots.debian.net and use dpkg -x to extract the package locally and find the libfreetype6.so.6 file.

I would encourage using dpkg-divert before modifying /usr/bin/ooo-wrapper so that a newer release do not simply erase your changes:

sudo dpkg-divert --add --local --rename /usr/bin/ooo-wrapper

Then add $ENV{'LD_PRELOAD'} = "/usr/local/freetype2.1/libfreetype.so.6"; at the top of this file.