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Re: Linux Help Needed [message #47133 is a reply to message #47130]

Mon, 23 January 2006 22:16

Foldy Lajos
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Registered: October 2001

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Hi David,

libXp belongs to X11, but it is not installed by default :-(
Try to install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs from your install CD.

regards,
lajos

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, David Fanning wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Partly so I could feel the pain in the Linux user, and
> partly because I'm a masochist at heart, I decided to
> download IDL on a Linux machine.
>
> I spent the better part of an evening downloading the
> latest Fedora Core 4 Linux OS and put it on an old Dell
> laptop. I still don't have a mouse working, but the touch
> pad is OK, and everything else seems to be in order, so
> I downloaded the latest IDL from the RSI web page and
> followed the installation instructions to the letter.
> No problems there.
>
> But when I go to run IDL I get a message about "error
> loading shared library: libXp.so.6. No such file or directory".
> It is looking for it in the /usr/local/rsi/idl_6.2/bin/bin.linux.86
> directory, and, sure enough, it is not there.
>
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
>
> Any idea how I might get a mouse working?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
>

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		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:28
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:15
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:03
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 24 January 2006 08:55
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 08:37
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Tue, 24 January 2006 07:35
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 07:02
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 January 2006 06:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 23 January 2006 22:16

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