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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:20:29 -0500
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <j_mckitrick@bigfoot.com>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: missing X library?
Message-ID:  <3842C3ED.275AEECC@bigfoot.com>
References:  <199911291744.MAA24154@blackhelicopters.org>

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Well, you were right... i reinstalled X and all seems to be OK.  We'll see.  I
guess i really need to pay more attention and find out what is going on in my
linux compat directory.  I didn't think i would need any linux X support if i
already had it in FreeBSD.  That seems redundant.

Michael Lucas wrote:

> > Well, in my efforts to remove wordperfect i shot myself in the foot.  I
> > ran a 'rpm -e --nodeps < filelist' to remove all rpms, which i thought
> > were only for wordperfect.  But now xterm and x won't run because of the
> > following error from ld-elf.so.1:
> >
> > shared object "libXmu.s0.6" not found
> >
> > Where do i reinstall this from?
> > And next time i do this, what is the command that will help me find files
> > like this on my own?
> >
> > -jm
>
> Hello,
>
> Without more information it's hard to state what exactly happened.
> Also, I'm coming in late to this thread.  Given all that, here's my
> Best Guess (tm)...
>
> When you installed WordPerfect, did you use RPM's --root /compat/linux
> option?
>
> It's possible that the RPM remove process fried everything that it
> required to run including, in your case, the X window system.
>
> I.e., my system has:
>
> moneysink~;locate -i libXmu.so.6.0
> /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXmu.so.6.0
> /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
> /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
> moneysink~;
>
> If you fry the one under /usr/X11R6, you're toast.
>
> If you fry the one under /usr/compat/linux, you're fine.
>
> My guess is that you deleted your native FreeBSD libXmu.so.6.0.
>
> Best suggestion; remove and reinstall X.
>
> Sorry,
> ==ml



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