On 15 September 2016 at 11:34, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On 15 September 2016 at 10:59, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> >>> My suggestion would be install apt-file, either using aptitude or >> apt-get or synaptic if you prefer. >> >> Then as root: >> apt-file update >> >> Once that is done, you can do apt-file search libpangoxft and see what >> package, if any, in Debian contains it. Then install that package. Or >> create a dummy package that depends on it and install that, so the library >> will get removed again if you don't need it later and not clutter your >> system up. >> > > Many thanks for the help here! > > > I did this and it was the > > > > ibpangoxft-1.0 > -dev package that needed to be installed - but this time when I installed > it using aptitude it worked. > > But when I tried to run xaralx I got the following error: > > > michaelmikef@rhubarb:~/Documents/CPI/xaralx/xaralx/bin$ ./xaralx > ./xaralx: error while loading shared libraries: l > > ibpangoxft-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > Regards > > MF > Dear All, I tried installing xaralx on another machine I have running Debian Jessie cf stretch above. the tar file seemed to extract properly and I can see the executable: mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx$ ls bin mime-storage share xaralx.desktop xaralxHelp.tar.gz xaralx.png xaralx.xml mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx$ cd bin mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$ ls xaralx xarasvgfilter xarasvgfilterui mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$ ls -l total 33652 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 24330484 Aug 10 2006 xaralx -rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 6453151 Aug 10 2006 xarasvgfilter -rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 3669331 Aug 10 2006 xarasvgfilterui mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$ looks encouraging....... But when I try to run the executable the error I get is: failed to execute child process /home/mikef/Documents/xaralx/bin/xaralx (No such file or directory) But the directory and file do exist... What I am I doing wrong here? Regards MF > > > > >> >> If the package you need turns out to be the one you already tried, we >> will need to know the exact errors you are getting to help further. >> >> Mark >> > > > > > > > >
