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From: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 missing libraries?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:24:48 +0100
Organization: Lemuria Private Computing
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Chris Kolosiwsky wrote:
> 
> Hi..
> 
> I recently installed the XFree86 distribution included with FreeBSD
> 2.10 and I have been having some trouble with the optional apps that I
> have installed. More specifically, there are a few that say a shared
> library can't be found:
> 
> olvwm-4.1       missing libolgx.so.3.2
> xfmail-0.3b     missing libxforms.so.0.7
> xpaint-2.1.1    missing libXpm.so.4.6
> 
> Have I misinstalled or do I have some problem with the libraries? I've
> looked in the /usr/X11R6/lib directories and I can't find them. If I
> haven't messed anything up, is it possible to obtain these libraries
> from somewhere else?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris Kolosiwsky
> Asst. SysAdmin
> Howard Publications

Hi Chris,

These missing libs are part of other optional ports. E.g. libolgx is part 
of XView. The other two libs mentoined can be found in ports/graphics/xpm 
and ports/x11/xforms.

Thomas