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#! rnews 1882 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!199.171.196.4!news.cybercomm.net!usenet From: "Glen" <gi143@cybercomm.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fvwm wows!!! When I try to start fvwm I get a message libXpm.so.4.6 not found Date: 29 Dec 1996 12:36:06 GMT Organization: CyberComm Online Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <01bbf67b$351b1c00$61c4abc7@cybercomm.net.cybercomm.net> References: <5a4uv8$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net> <01bbf510$5cef7760$da8dc7cd@bw.aa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33220 I can't find that file. Do you know where it is in bin form. thanks brian wehrle <brianw@aa.net> wrote in article <01bbf510$5cef7760$da8dc7cd@bw.aa.net>... > You probably have a libxpm.so of a different version... if not you will > have to DL that lib from > ftp.x.org ( any number of places have it). If you do have a lib of a > different version, say libxpm.so.4.7 > just do this: > ln -s libxmp.so.4.6 libxpm.so.4.7 (is that order correct ??) If, maybe > switch the order there. > That should work. You just made a sym link from the shared obj file that > you have to a nonexistent one which you don't, so that when it looks for > one it gets another (copying works fine too.) > Brian > > > Glen <gi143@cybercomm.net> wrote in article > <5a4uv8$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net>... > > When I try to start fvwm I get an error message libXpm.so.4.6 not > found. > > So I did an ldconfig no luck. > > Then I tried to find the file from root no luck. Could someone please > > help!!!!! > > > > > > > > thanks > > >