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From: toor@telepac.pt (Jose Gabriel J Marcelino)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Fvwm and libXpm.so.4.2 ?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:25:12 GMT
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mezaucha@woodlawn.uchicago.edu (Matthew Edward Zaucha) 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.

I had this problem too... You have to get the XPM-3.4e FreeBSD package too...
(it's the X pixmap package)

If you use pkg_manage (which is really great thing btw) it should tell you
what's  missing.

cheers
Gabriel

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