On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:41:59AM -0800, Jeff Nelson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been trying out Corel Linux 1.0 on a Pentium 100/32MB/6x/1GB. It's
> been working great except for trying to install new programs that run in
> X-Windows; specifically, Freeciv (client); Adobe Acrobat 3.0 & 4.0; and
> Nedit. (Star Office, however, installs & runs fine.) Each of these
Star Office provides all it's own libraries, and doesn't link against
standard X libraries ( I believe, this is what ldd appears to say ).
This is also why StarOffice is a 160M install.
> programs either during installation or when I try to run them gives an
> error about xlib6 being missing or not loading. I know that xlib6 was
> installed, and I could use find to locate each of the supposedly missing
> files (libXext.so.6, libXt.so.6). I tried reinstalling the Debian xlib6
> package using dpkg -i, but it didn't fix anything; I still get all the same
> errors.
>
> Is there something I'm missing here?
>
first thing that pops to mind is are you sure that
xlib6 is installed. It's important that xlib6 as well as
xlib6g is installed.
Hmm. Could I see exact error messsages, and where they come from
(trying install freeciv, trying to run acrobat. )
also, take a look at ldd /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread.
It should have lines like:
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40050000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005b000)
but if they don't have the /usr/lib/libc5-compat/ but /usr/lib instead
that may be the problem.
Also, if you are having no luck, send *me* (too much for whole list)
a copy of these ldd's.
Next. are the files they point to actually there?
If not, they should be in xlib6 packages, so you could take a look
at the copy you have installed. try
dpkg -L xlib6
and it will list all the files it thinks it installed, so if files aren't
there, you could try purging(not just removing) it and reinstalling it.
dpkg --purge --force-depends xlib6
dpkg -i xlib6.deb
mmm..
If these files still don't actually show up, but are in the package list,
you could try doing
mkdir /tmp/lalala
cd /tmp/lalala
dpkg -x /path/to/xlib6
and see if you can find the files from the package, and copy them to the
right place. Or grab a different copy of xlib6 (ftp.debian.org)or ma
blah=/usr/lib/libc5-compat
env LD_PRELOAD=$blah/libXt.so.6:$blah/libXext.so.6:$blah/libX11.so.6 acroread
umm.. other than that, where are you getting acrobat and freeciv, are these
.deb's? if not. There are .deb's available for both of these programs, and
especially with debian, you basically need to use native packages if you don't
want the system to break on upgrade.
I've got a debian box that's 2.0->2.1->2.2 and another 2.1->2.2->2.3 cleanly,
but have boxes that broke as bad as Redhat upgrades, when I'd installed a lot
of software myself that got written over on upgrade.
what does 'grep -V' say?
hope this helps
greg
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