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Subject: Re: Launching Vim
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Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Can someone give me a heads up on this.  I just installed vim, but when
> I try to launch
> the program I get this error message:
> 
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by
> "vim"
> 
> Is this a path problem?  The actual file libperl.so recides in
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE/libperl.so

First, run:

# /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

Then, provide the output to:

# locate libperl.so
# echo $PATH

Steve