Previously from Neil Zanella
>I just upgraded from XFree86 3.3.2.3 to XFree86 3.6 by
>installing the binary distribution from scratch under
>/usr/X11R6 after backing up my /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.bak.
>The twm window manager started from xdm works fine and is
>configured as the default window manager. After reconfiguring
>and renaming some files (such as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xclients
>and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xsession) I tried to run fvwm2
>in place of twm as my default window manager. However, I get
>the following error in my ~/.xsession-errors file:
>
>/usr/local/bin/fvwm2: error in loading shared libraries
>libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>After looking under my /usr/X11R6 tree it looks like the Xpm library
>file libXpm.so.4 is not part of XFree86 and was installed there
>separately. I tried making a symbolic link to the same file under
>my /usr/X11R6.bak tree but this did not solve my problem and the same
>error kept on appearing in my ~/.xsession-errors when I logged in
>with xdm.
>
>At this point it seems like the only way to get rid of this problem
>is to reinstall the Xpm library files from scratch.
It's not a terribly difficult installation. For more information:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=xpm
leads to:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html
>Where do I get the Xpm library files from?
>Has anyone experienced this problem before?
>Does anyone have any alternative suggestions?
Sticking to the packaged setups is generally easier to do and allows
you to solve problems like these more easily. OTOH, people on OSes
like Solaris have to toddle over to sunfreeware.com to pick up all the
necessities Sun forgot to put on their CDs, like gcc, perl and Xpm (I
hear they've finally addressed the issue in Solaris8).
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Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 00:10:42 BST