Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 15:50:33 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! -- acroread failing to launch Message-ID: <20040507155033.1977c645@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44r7tw3usi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20040507123101.30164fe1@localhost> <44r7tw3usi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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hi lowell, problem already solved. it may have been confusing because my last reply didn't follow the usual '>' indent format. i had to cut and paste the message from the website, because i never received a copy of the message. thanks for your offer to help. cheers, epi. On 07 May 2004 15:24:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote: > epilogue@allstream.net writes: > > > > acroread > > /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading > > shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such > > file or directory > > > > > locate libXt.so.6 > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 > > > > i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file > > (with reboot, naturally). > > > > ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib > > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib > > /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib" > > > > ldconfig_paths_aout="/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout > > /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout" > > > > this is the version i have installed: > > acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents > > > > finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all > > dependencies should also have been installed. i do have linux_base_8 > > installed*instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu. > > (also, i > > have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the > > problem). > > > > if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know. > > acroread wants libXt.so.6 and can't find it. > Is it installed? > > Note that pkgdb can fix what its own database thinks are the > dependencies for acroread, but if acroread *actually* needs > linux_base-7, then, well, that's what it needs. You might be able to > get away with just copying in the libraries that acroread complains > are missing. >
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