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From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Launching Vim
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> Rem P Roberti wrote:
>   
>> Can someone give me a heads up on this.  I just installed vim, but when
>> I try to launch
>> the program I get this error message:
>>
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by
>> "vim"
>>
>> Is this a path problem?  The actual file libperl.so recides in
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE/libperl.so
>>     
>
> First, run:
>
> # /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
>
> Then, provide the output to:
>
> # locate libperl.so
> # echo $PATH
>
> Steve
>
>   


After I recovered the ability to do deinstall/reinstall I did just that
with vim and it solved the problem.  I'm still not sure why the original
problem occurred, but everything is working now. 

Rem