Thomas, Thanks for your reply. I'm currently working on the later version of GIMP right now (i've found that it's quite involved. thankfully 'Che-Fox' is gracious enough to help me with that) but I will try the lesstif for xtar.
Thanks again, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Way f-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Thomas SCHIEX wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > > >> hello, all, > >> > >> I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get > >> the same error message: > >> > >> xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library > >> 'libXm.so.2' > >> > >> ??? > >> > > libXm is Motif. You are trying to install software which is dynamically > linked with Motif but you haven't Motif. For GIMP: get version 0.99.13. It > works with its own toolkit (gtk) and does not need motif anymore. Moreover, > it is much more impressive than 0.54. > > For Xtar, try to use lesstif (available as a debian package). It is a free > motif clone. > > Thomas > > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .