[I think that something like this happened once before, a library was
there, but "invisible."]
I am running Xephem, an astronomy program written in Motif. It has libXm.so.4 as a dependency. libXm.so.4 is in /usr/lib, as a symlink to libXm.so.4.0.4, but Xephem can't find it. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the library, but that would have removed a swag of apps,
including Cups and Xephem itself. It worked in the past day or so. I
ran "sudo ldconfig" as a precaution, but that may no longer be relevant
in the systemd world. Rebooting had no effect.
Is there a reason why this happens?
On 10/10/19 4:09 am, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
[I think that something like this happened once before, a library was
there, but "invisible."]
I am running Xephem, an astronomy program written in Motif. It has
libXm.so.4 as a dependency. libXm.so.4 is in /usr/lib, as a symlink
to libXm.so.4.0.4, but Xephem can't find it. I tried to uninstall and
reinstall the library, but that would have removed a swag of apps,
including Cups and Xephem itself. It worked in the past day or so. I
ran "sudo ldconfig" as a precaution, but that may no longer be
relevant in the systemd world. Rebooting had no effect.
Is there a reason why this happens?
Two immediate silly things come to mind.
Is it permissions or is /usr/lib in the $PATH.
regards
faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.2.13-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via
Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso
Can you please give me the sig line that pulls in this info?
BitTwister gave it to me long ago, but I have lost it.
Can you please give me the sig line that pulls in this info? BitTwister gave it to me long ago, but I have lost it.
Naturally, I checked both those. My next thought is that libXm.so.4.0.4 won't work in this program (the reason why I have always advocated using only Mageia RPMs.) I am running Cauldron, for other reasons. 7.1
Official doesn't have the problem. That suggested that maybe there was a recent update of the library, but the Changelog shows that there wasn't one. I could try recompiling xephem from the tarball.
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