Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 22:55:54 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: "Daniel A. Borlean" <bord@cruzio.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing libraries in FreeBSD Message-ID: <331E6A7A.883@u.washington.edu> References: <MAPI.Id.0016.00696e65353120203030303630303036@MAPI.to.RFC822>
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Daniel A. Borlean wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having difficulties running several applications with my 2.1.6-RELEASE
> FreeBSD system.
> For example, when I try to start up the fvwm X Windows manager, I get this
> error message:
Did you know that to run fvwm with color icons that you need to get an
added library called xpm? This a seperate library that does not
necessarily come with Xfree86, fwvm, or FreeBSD.
Get this library. Install it. Then try fvwm.
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXpm.so.4.6"
>
> Again with X Windows emacs-19.14 I get another error:
>
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0"
>
> I searched all over my system files and could not find any lib files with
> libXpm or libgcc.
> Also, I believe I received a similar error message when trying to use xv.
>
> Since I couldn't find any of these required libraries, I searched the
> ftp.freebsd.com site, but
> wasn't able to find them.
>
> Can you please point me to the exact ftp site and relative directory or
> full path where I could
> locate and download these libraries? Also, do you know if I'd need any
> other lib files for such
> applications as I've described.
>
> By the way, I installed my system with the ftp over the network option, so
> the installation might
> have missed some lib files needed for X Windows.
>
> Thank you very much for any help,
> Daniel
>
> bord@cruzio.com
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