Date: 07 May 2004 15:24:13 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: epilogue@allstream.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! -- acroread failing to launch Message-ID: <44r7tw3usi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040507123101.30164fe1@localhost> References: <20040507123101.30164fe1@localhost>
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epilogue@allstream.net writes: > > 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. acroread wants libXt.so.6 and can't find it. Is it installed? Note that pkgdb can fix what its own database thinks are the dependencies for acroread, but if acroread *actually* needs linux_base-7, then, well, that's what it needs. You might be able to get away with just copying in the libraries that acroread complains are missing.
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