Comment 3 for bug 176318

Ok, then it was probably an old version of libfreetype (not installed as ubuntu package) causing the problem. After removing all libfreetype files in /usr/local/lib, the symbolic link seized to appear at libfreetype6 or libxft re-installation. Thank you for your help, Sebastian! But, I'm curious, why did this symbolic link re-appear every time I re-installed some Ubuntu packages? Always nice to learn something from the problems you run into...