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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:05:05 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0 and "Shared object "libXpm.so.4" not foun
Message-ID:  <20000622210505.B489@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <39525A8B.167EB0E7@psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:27:23PM -0400
References:  <39525A8B.167EB0E7@psu.edu>

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> Chris confirmed,
> 
> >On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 09:02:14PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> >> I haven't seen this on prior insallations with older versions. 
> >> fvwm2 and xlock both report 
> >> 
> >>  Shared object "libXpm.so.4" not found
> 
> >What does,
> 
> >  % ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm*
> 
> >Return?
> 
> absolutely nothing.

Well the files are not there. It does not look like the port or
package was ever installed.

> hawkinsttyp0:hawk>ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel     10 Jun 21 18:15 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so ->
> libXp.so.6
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  28965 Jan  8 11:42 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6

Different libs. Has nothing to do with xpm.

> >Does the file >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl exist?
> 
> No.  That entire directory is empty.
> 
>  >How did you install X on this machine?
> 
> I initially tried to build the package for version 4, but the build
> failed (and I didn't keep the reason).
> 
> I then used the binary package for 4, but couldn't get a working
> server--it states that my card (Trio 64V+) is unsupported, but that a
> generic server might work.
> 
> I pulled the package and installed the distribution for version 3.  I
> just did that again mid-messge and there's still no libXpm.<anything>

It does not come with XFree86. Make the port,

  # cd /usr/ports/graphics/xpm
  # make install

Or grab the binary package and use pkg_add(1).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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