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From: fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Missing libX?
Date: 28 Jun 1997 02:02:00 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <5p17ml$8n9@nntp02.primenet.com>,
Bryan Ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> wrote:
>>I have a lot of program (emacs, xemacs, clients from the RSA challenge,
>>...) that won't work because of missing libraries: for example, xemacs
>>says:
>>"ld.so failed: can't find shared library libXm.so.2.0"
>Do you have these libraries installed? This looks like an X library: do
>you have XFree installed?
I'm not sure about libXm.so.2.0, but I recently ran into a similar
problem. If someone installed the Xuser rather than Xdeveloper
distribution, some X libraries are not be installed. As I understand
it, programs (ports) installed with sysinstall should have everything
they need to run, but programs installed in other ways may not. That
could give you a machine with a working X environment, but a few
problems with missing libraries. But I don't know if that applies
to this problem: I hit this compiling a program, not running one
that was already complied.
Frank Crary
CU Boulder