David,
Thanks very much. I am a new (or new again ... I haven't been on the
list for a while) subscriber to debian-users. I tried looking for
answer in the archives on www.debian.org, but they are not up-to-date
with the list (i.e. nothing later than Nov. appears) and in any event
what is there doesn't look quite right: a listing of entries entitled
"No Subject" ... when I follow a link, the document is 700+K and I
was too impatient to go wading through the whole thing, considering
it was out-of-date. Is this the normal state of affairs for the
archive?
Thanks also to the other respondents who also gave me this fix.
My system is now back on its feet again.
Ben.
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, David Ogilvie wrote:
> i believe this has already been mentioned a few times on the mailing list,
> although it's easy enough to miss the root of the problem.
>
> the file /etc/ld.so.conf should read:
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout
> /usr/X11R6/lib
>
> the installation procedure seems to leave out the /usr/X11R6/lib line, so
> that
> libraries in that directory cannot be found. after you change this file, you
> need to run ldconfig as root, to let the system know that the libraries have
> been changed. you might want to run "ldconfig -v" and look at the listing of
> libraries to make sure all the ones you expect are there and are linked
> correctly.
>
> i believe that the xservers and other programs not depending on xbase is a
> bug, and will hopefully be fixed soon.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> -david
>
>
>
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