Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:55:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@cola80.scsn.net> To: yihsiao@ucsd.edu (Yimin Hsiao) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help!!! Message-ID: <199704162055.QAA00566@cola80.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <01BC493F.F2FE9870@yihsiao.extern.ucsd.edu> from Yimin Hsiao at "Apr 15, 97 01:54:13 am"
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> I just installed emacs from the packages using "pkg_add", but I wasn't able to run it. I got the following error whenever I typed "emacs" at the # prompt,
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library libXaw.so.6.1
> Can someone help me with this problem?
This lib (libXaw.so.6.1) is part of X... It's not found because you
don't have X installed... If you want to run emacs without X, you should
start it with the command `emacs -nw`. The '-nw' switch tells it not to
try to use X.
>
> I also installed gcc from the packages and compiled a test program. But I couldn't run a.out. I see the error
> a.out not found
> whenever I type a.out. But the file IS there. What happened? It couldn't tell it's an executable?
This is because the current directory is not in your path. To execute
a program in the current dir named 'myprog', you should type ./myprog.
The './' tells the shell to look for the program in the current dir,
rather than searching through yur path for it.
> I also wanted to install XWindows. I downloaded the entire directory "XFree86" from the web, but how do I go from there? /stand/sysinstall doesn't seem to work and I want to install it manually. Can you please tell me how? Thanks.
1) You should already have a dir named /usr/X11R6... If you don't, then
create it.
2) Cd to /usr/X11R6 and untar all of the XF32*.tgz files with a command
like `tar -pvzxf <PATH TO TARFILES>/X32*.tgz`.
3) Then copy the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc file to your home dir,
rename it to .xinitrc and edit it to your liking.
4) Add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path.
5) Type 'ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/bin'.
6) Type 'startx'
This should at least get you started... Good luck :-)
--
Donald J. Maddox
(dmaddox@scsn.net)
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