[M3devel] trouble installing on a Debian lenny system.

[Tony Hosking]

You should have a link from libXaw.so, etc.


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On Apr 6, 2008, at 9:49 AM, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:08:06PM -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:
>> Looks like you have a strangely configured X11 subsystem.  Look at  
>> how
>> libXaw (the one cminstall is actually looking for) is not visible  
>> in /
>> usr/lib.
>
> So you seem to be telling me that the problem is that a symbolic
> link libXaw->libXaw7.so.7 is missing, even though
> libXaw.so.7->libXaw7.so.7 is clearly present, there's a complete suite
> of links for libXaw7,  and, as far as I know, no other programs are
> having problems with this.
>
> hendrik at april:/usr/lib$ ls -l  libXaw*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2006-06-15 11:33 libXaw3d.so.6 ->
> libXaw3d.so.6.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367784 2006-05-03 07:20 libXaw3d.so.6.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2006-09-20 11:39 libXaw7.so.7 ->
> libXaw7.so.7.0.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 440496 2006-08-27 19:51 libXaw7.so.7.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2006-09-20 11:39 libXaw.so.7 ->
> libXaw7.so.7
> hendrik at april:/usr/lib$
>
> So, since I run a pretty-well autoconfigured X installed from
> Debian-stable packages, and regularly updated, something must have  
> gone
> wrong with one of the upgrades since the dawn of time.  Or maybe  
> Debian
> is just weird.   I'll go on the Debian sites and try to identify the
> misbehaving package.
>
> Thanks.

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