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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:26:19
Message-Id: 20060703161429.GB9207@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update by Kristian Poul Herkild
1 On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:19:18PM +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote
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3 > > Then I kludged together an ugly workaround...
4 > >
5 > > [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib
6 > > [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8
7
8 > Aaawwww... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P
9 >
10 > When you encounter broken packages, you should run "revdep-rebuild
11 > --pretend", watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without
12 > --pretend.
13 >
14 > That is the right way to solve such problems.
15
16 Actually, I should've mentioned I did that, but revdep-rebuild didn't
17 find anything wrong. This was a part of the Xorg7 update. Michael
18 Ploujnikov's solution worked.
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