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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: emacs: ld.so failed (970205-GAMMA)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:35:54 -0800
Organization: Applied Physics Lab
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To: Michael R Weholt <awnbreel@panix.com>
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Michael R Weholt wrote:
> 
>         I've been trying to get emacs (19.34b) to run and I keep
> getting these "ld.so failed" messages.  In particular, the one I get
> now is "libXmu.so.6.0 not found".  I must confess <blush> that there
> was an earlier "ld.so failed" message which I "solved" by finding what
> appeared to be an earlier version of the missing lib and creating a
> link to it. This was just to see what happened (I got to the
> "libXmu.so.6.0 not found" message), and now of course even though I
> search the lib directories for a link, I am uncertain of what I did so
> I can't really undo it.  Sigh ...
> 
>         Also, I used Altavista to find a "libXmu.so.6.0" file at some
> RedHat site and, just for the heck of it, tried that but I got a
> "wrong magic number" message.
> 
>         Anyway, any advice?  I don't have X11 installed if that has
> anything to do with anything.  I can't believe getting something as
> basic as emacs to run can be this difficult.  And, btw, I have other
> stuff like lynx & joe running fine.  This is a standalone, "just
> screwing around" machine.
> 
> Michael R Weholt
>  http://www.panix.com/~mrw/

kargl[282] ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm*
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.a         /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0

Install X11R6.

-- 
Steve

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