Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again.
Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to > > install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from > > the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during > > the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger > > functioned. The error message was can'tload library libXt.so.6. I used > > locate which had its database from before the change and I found that I > > had that file (and a bunch of other ones) in the /usr/lib/libc5-compat > > directory. The libXt.so.6 file was no longer there. > > > > Well, in my infinate wisdom, :) I just used dselect to remove libc5 > > with the thought of reiinstalling it to get the file back. Well, It > > erase several more packages then I bargined for (none to critical). I > > tried to re-install the libc5 stuff and the scripts finished without any > > errors. But the libc5-compat directory is not completely empty! > > > > What package do I need to load to get the libc5 based libraries working > > again? So far, the only casulity I have seen is WP8, but I'll bet I > > will find others as time goes by. > > xlib6 > xpm4.7 > libc5 > > Bob > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
