From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 18:54:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id SAA03333 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:54:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-7-192-100.iafrica.com [196.7.192.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03321 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) id EAA00700; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 04:52:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199612050252.EAA00700@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: simple library install In-Reply-To: <32A6C43E.3116@unixg.ubc.ca> from Stephen Cawood at "Dec 5, 96 04:46:54 am" To: cawood@unixg.ubc.ca (Stephen Cawood) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 04:52:08 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Cawood wrote: > I am trying to use libXpm.so.4.7 that I got in gzip form. > > What do I do to install it? > > When I expand it, it has no suffix (ie .o or .a) so where does it go and > how do I use it. This is a shared library, and needs to go where the system looks for shared libraries. Look at `/etc/rc' (search for `ldconfig'). You may need to do a `/sbin/ldconfig -m' to have the system recognize the library. See the ldconfig(8) man page for details. Or simply reboot. -- Robert Nordier