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Article #59843Re: X11 lib problem with slackware Cd's
From: Mark T. Gray
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <47fu9q$i8m@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au>, William Anthony Stubbs <aws87@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> wrote: >Hi. >I've just installed linux on my P90 and am having some difficulties with a >library under X-windows. > >The installation was from the 4 CD set August slackware CD's and the error >is this : > >/usr/openwin/bin/xtoolplaces: can't load library '//libX11.so.3' > No such library. > >The library exists at /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.3 so i think it is just a path >set up wrong some where along the line... >I am at a loss as to how to fix it tho .. > >Has anyone else had this problem or have any idea how to work around it ? > >thanks for any help.. > >William (linux newb..) =) >aws87@uow.edu.au You may have your libX11.so.3 in the wrong place, my Slack 3.0 libX11 are: /usr/i486-linux/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/i486-linux/lib/libX11.so.6.0 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.3 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 (Can't tell for sure because I haven't tried to compile xtoolplaces yet -- mine might be wrong too!)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d49ce545a28c4d10,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: markgray@postoffice.ptd.net (Mark T. Gray) Subject: Re: X11 lib problem with slackware Cd's Date: 1995/11/07 Message-ID: <DHopLz.CKq@postoffice.ptd.net> X-Deja-AN: 118845529 sender: news@postoffice.ptd.net (News Master) x-nntp-posting-host: cs1-02.spa.ptd.net references: <47fu9q$i8m@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> organization: Entropy newsgroups: aus.computers.linux