From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 9: 3: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBDB37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 17HRcp-000Nv0-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:02:35 +0300 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:02:35 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't launch xterm -- libXpm.so.4 not found Message-ID: <20020610160235.GC89971@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Absentee, n.: A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 7:00PM up 7 days, 9:44, 2 users, load averages: 0.64, 0.41, 0.36 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having a small (though serious) problem. I just can't launch xterm from within my window manager. When I try it I get this error: alligator# xterm /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXpm.so.4" not found But the file being complained about is right here ;-) alligator# locate libXpm.so.4 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXpm.so.4 /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXpm.so.4.9 alligator# What can I do to solve this problem? Thanking you in advance -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: 254 2 313985-9 Fax: 254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: 254 72 743 223 GSM: 254 733 744 121 This sig is McQ! :-) Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message