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jenr95@octarine.adfa.oz.au (JENKINS ROBERT) writes:

>Hello,
>	I recently installed Slackware 3.0 and decided to include the 
>XView package that comes with it. The installation seemingly went
>fine, but I came up with a problem upon execution of openwin: the 
>pretty linux symbol came up and then the X session died while trying
>to bring up olwm. Error message along the lines of:
>	Can't load library 'libolgx.so.3'

>	Now, /usr/openwin/lib exists, and indeed holds a file called
>'libolgx.so.3' - it's linked to a file called 'libolgx.so.3.2.0'.
>Similar problems occurred with other binaries from the XView series.
>It presumably can't find the actual file, because the same message
>came up even when I'd deleted the link. $OPENWIN is /usr/openwin. Any
>ideas on where it is actually looking, or on what else I should do?
>I've tried setting up symbolic links in a couple of likely places
>(/usr/X11/lib & /var/X11/lib or something like that...) and also
>converting libolgx.so.3 to a hard link - no joy.

Add a line with /usr/openwin/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf and then run
"ldconfig -v"  (the -v to see what it does).  The library files in
that directory shouldnow be able to be found by ld.so (and your
linker).

Cheers
Tony
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