From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 17:29:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A4A16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F97243D39 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from epilogue@allstream.net) Received: from localhost (unknown [216.123.133.70]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with SMTP id 680E2B48C0 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 20:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 20:29:47 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040506202947.2228141d@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: help! -- acroread failing to launch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:29:49 -0000 hi, i recently uninstalled almost all of my programs, cleaned out the cruft, and re-installed only the programs i was actually using. +2Gb yay! well, since reinstalling acroread, i'm having problems getting it to run. i vaguely recall having the same issue, when i first installed the program many moons ago, but do not recall what to do to fix. here is the error message: > acroread /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file (with reboot, naturally). ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib" ldconfig_paths_aout="/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout" this is the version i have installed: acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all dependencies should also have been installed. i do have linux_base_8 installed *instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu. (also, i have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the problem). if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know. thank you very much, epi