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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: Xwindows!?
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> Now another thing (rather important) - my fvwm is unable to 
> start, and reports the following error:
> 
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXpm.so.4.6"
> 
> I can't find that library anywhere, not even in the XFree 
> install packages? So 'startx' launches twm instead.
> 
> 
> Thanks for you patience.

You need to install Xpm. It is in the ports collection, and probably the
packagages directory.