Re: Some X libraries have dropped off the radar

[Matthew Hambley]

In message <20021015090045.GB4856@uvt407-5.ruk.cuni.cz>
          Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach_l@centrum.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:06:01PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote:
> > I've got a bit of a problem with the updates recently made to the X
> > system in Debian GNU/HURD.  I can not install xfonts-scalable as the
> > installation process can't find libXft.so.1.  This I find surprising
> > given that it is
> Perhaps you would like to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before you run
> dpkg/apt/dselect or make a symlink that makes the lib visible to the
> liker?

I discovered the LD_LIBRARY_PATH solution after posting the request for
help.  I was confused by the fact that I had set up /etc/ld.so.conf as I
would for a Linux system but it was having no effect.  Since it appears not
to be used would it make sense to remove it from the distribution?

> Hope that helps

Yes, thanks.

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