On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: > I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following > error: > > dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb > "mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries" > "libz.so.1: cannot open" > > Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in /usr/X11R6/lib because it's not part > of xbase. Also, just running "mkfontdir" also gives the same error". Is it > broken ?
The "xbase" you have installed (which contains mkfontdir) is indeed broken, as it doesn't declare a dependency on zlib1g (which contains libz.so.1). According to the changelog of the current version of xbase in "frozen", this was fixed in 3.3.2.3a-1 (Sun, 23 Aug 1998). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
