On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Indus wrote: > > > I am new to Linux and I have just tried to install the system onto a 386 > > > DX20 laptop with 8mb of ram. When I try running VIM, I get an error > > > message > > > saying that it needs the 'libXaw.so.6' library. Where can I get this ? > > > > libXaw.so.6 is the Athena widget set for X11R6. Many programs that have an > > X Windows mode require this, even if they also have a text mode interface. > > > > You need to install the "xlib" package. This does *not* mean you have to > > install X windows -- I wouldn't try running it on a 386DX20 with 8 megs > > anyway. > > > > The xlib package should update your /etc/ld.so.conf to include the line > > "/usr/X11R6/lib"; if it doesn't, use ae or one of the other small editors to > > do it. > > Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and > libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging > system, one with and one without X support?
You're right. On my system (pretty much stock 1.2.7), it only requires ncurses and libc5, and starts up fine without ever complaining about libXaw. I hereby delegate this problem to the more clueful... -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/
