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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fvwm doesnt start...
Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:59:07 +0100
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Alexander Holmansky <kholma@matisse.its.rpi.edu> wrote:
>I was trying to start fvwm, but it gave me an error message sying that
>"libXpm.so.4.5 is not defined"...
>
>I looked in /usr/X11R6/lib and found libXpm.so.4.5 there.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what does this message mean?

You've been installing libXpm.so, but forgot to re-run ldconfig on it,
so the ``ld.so hints'' (/var/run/ld.so.hints) have not been updated
yet.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)