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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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