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From: jseng@technet.sg (James Seng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Fvwm and libXpm.so.4.2 ?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 03:41:42 GMT
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Matthew Edward Zaucha (mezaucha@woodlawn.uchicago.edu) wrote:
:      Hello. I have been attempting to use fvwm with X11R6 and v2.0.5R of
: FreeBSD, but come across an error message stating that I need  
: libXpm.so.4.2...I have looked through the faqs and manpages to no avail.
: Is there a way that I can create this library, or must I download it from
: an X11 site? Thanks very much in advance.

libXpm.so.* should be inside /usr/X11R6/lib. If it fails to find it,
it probably not in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Do

ldconfig -v /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib

to update the /var/run/ld.so.hints.

-James Seng