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From: "Glen" <gi143@cybercomm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fvwm wows!!!   When I try to start fvwm I get a message libXpm.so.4.6 not found
Date: 29 Dec 1996 12:36:06 GMT
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I can't find that file.  Do you know where it is in bin form.

thanks

brian wehrle <brianw@aa.net> wrote in article
<01bbf510$5cef7760$da8dc7cd@bw.aa.net>...
> You probably have a libxpm.so of a different version...  if not you will
> have to DL that lib from
> ftp.x.org ( any number of places have it).  If you do have a lib of a
> different version, say libxpm.so.4.7
> just do this:
> ln -s libxmp.so.4.6 libxpm.so.4.7   (is that order correct ??)  If, maybe
> switch the order there.
> That should work.  You just made a sym link from the shared obj file that
> you have to a nonexistent one which you don't, so that when it looks for
> one it gets another (copying works fine too.)
> Brian
> 
> 
> Glen <gi143@cybercomm.net> wrote in article
> <5a4uv8$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net>...
> >  When I try to start fvwm I get an error  message libXpm.so.4.6 not
> found. 
> > So I did an ldconfig no luck.
> > Then I tried to find the file from root no luck.  Could someone please
> > help!!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
>