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From: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
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In-reply-to: <m0uXxpH-000FDHC@mail.airmail.net> (message from Dan Baritchi on
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Subject: Re: SNAP: ld.so: can't find libX11.so.6.0
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>I just installed the 2.2-960612-SNAP and everything went fine except 
>for one detail. When I try to start xdm I get the following error 
>message:
>	ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libX11.so.6.0"
>
>I looked everywhere on the system and I can't find it. The ldconfig
>path in /etc/rc includes /usr/X11R6/lib just like it should. I also
>tried searching for this file on the www.cdrom.com site, but with no 
>luck. The mailing list archives had some references to the same file,
>but I still didn't get anywhere.


This file,  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0 and /usr/lib/libcompat.so.2.0 are
missing from the 2.2-960612-SNAP (its is an alpha release, after all).  I
grabbed then from the 2.1 distribtion and life was good.

Mark