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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able |
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> to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... |
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> m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6 |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7 |
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> Then I kludged together an ugly workaround... |
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> [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib |
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> [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8 |
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> Much to my surprise, the damn thing actually works. But I know that |
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> somewhere down the line, this will come back to bite me. How do I get |
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> the real libXaw.so.8 built? |
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Aaawwww... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P |
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When you encounter broken packages, you should run "revdep-rebuild |
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--pretend", watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without |
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--pretend. |
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That is the right way to solve such problems. |
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-Kristian Poul Herkild |
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