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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:00:14 -0400
From:      "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
Cc:        jm@pluriproj.pt, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Emacs
Message-ID:  <19970923160014.59870@scsn.net>
In-Reply-To: <199709231155.HAA02552@bigbrother.rust.net>; from Michael W. Lucas on Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:55:41AM -0400
References:  <342ba919.12389188@mail.leirianet.pt> <199709231155.HAA02552@bigbrother.rust.net>

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On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:55:41AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Josi,
> 
> Emacs uses certain X libraries, which aren't part of the standard
> distribution.  This isn't the only one you'll need, but Emacs will only
> tell you the missing libraries one at a time.
> 
> You can either install the X binaries on your system, or find the
> particular set of libraries on ftp.freebsd.org.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael

Or, if you want to run emacs, but you don't want X, you can invoke it with:

% emacs -nw [filename]

and it won't try to use X.

> 
> > I've installed emacs under FreeBSD 2.2.2 with pkg_add and everithing
> > went ok, but when i try to run it, i keep getting the message:
> > 
> > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXaw.so.6.1"
> > 
> > What's the problem?



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