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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!140.142.64.3!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: emacs: ld.so failed (970205-GAMMA) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:35:54 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 35 Message-ID: <330CA79A.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <5ehv8e$1pl@news1.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Michael R Weholt <awnbreel@panix.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35820 Michael R Weholt wrote: > > I've been trying to get emacs (19.34b) to run and I keep > getting these "ld.so failed" messages. In particular, the one I get > now is "libXmu.so.6.0 not found". I must confess <blush> that there > was an earlier "ld.so failed" message which I "solved" by finding what > appeared to be an earlier version of the missing lib and creating a > link to it. This was just to see what happened (I got to the > "libXmu.so.6.0 not found" message), and now of course even though I > search the lib directories for a link, I am uncertain of what I did so > I can't really undo it. Sigh ... > > Also, I used Altavista to find a "libXmu.so.6.0" file at some > RedHat site and, just for the heck of it, tried that but I got a > "wrong magic number" message. > > Anyway, any advice? I don't have X11 installed if that has > anything to do with anything. I can't believe getting something as > basic as emacs to run can be this difficult. And, btw, I have other > stuff like lynx & joe running fine. This is a standalone, "just > screwing around" machine. > > Michael R Weholt > http://www.panix.com/~mrw/ kargl[282] ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm* /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 Install X11R6. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html