Re: FVWM: XFree86 upgrade: fvwm2 and libXpm.so.4

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 03:01:14 -0230 (NDT)

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Michael Han wrote:

> It's not a terribly difficult installation. For more information:
> http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html

I agree but I must have done something wrong because when I try to
launch netscape I get the following error:

/usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator: error in loading shared libraries
libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The same happens to me when I try to recompile fvwm2 with xpm support
since fvwm2's configure script does not find the files from my fresh
xpm installation.

Do I have to recompile my whole system to get things to work now?
($%&^_at_$@!!!)

> 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).

On one hand I agree since after all I haven't had much luck with
xpm-3.4k.tar.gz (although I the problem I am experiencing seems
a bit of a puzzle). On the other hand an rpm might have dependencies
such as a newer glibc (I am still running glibc 2.0).

Why aren't applications able find my shared library files?
After all they are installed in a very standard location.
Do I need some extra symlinks?

Thanks,

Neil

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Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 00:29:47 BST

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