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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!frankensun.altair.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fvwm doesnt start... Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:59:07 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <47jc3b$m6p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47e9s9$c6d@usenet.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Alexander Holmansky <kholma@matisse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: >I was trying to start fvwm, but it gave me an error message sying that >"libXpm.so.4.5 is not defined"... > >I looked in /usr/X11R6/lib and found libXpm.so.4.5 there. > >Does anyone have any idea what does this message mean? You've been installing libXpm.so, but forgot to re-run ldconfig on it, so the ``ld.so hints'' (/var/run/ld.so.hints) have not been updated yet. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)