Subject: Re: Abiword for FreeBSD
From: Tim LaDuca (mail@timl.org)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 11:02:21 CDT
"James E. Paschal, Sr." wrote:
>
> I am a recent convert to FreeBSD v4.0. AbiWord is the first "package" I
> attempted to set up on my new system as I had enjoyed usining it in various
> iterations before on both Win95/98 and Linux.
>
> However, after what seems to be a "flawless" install, both of Abiword 0.7.10
> and the dependant files stated in the instructions, I get the following
> error message when entering the AbiWord or abiword executable statement at
> the command line:
>
> "/usr/libexec/id-elf.so.1: shared object 'libxpg4.so.3' not found"
>
> Also neither of the "executable links" in the bin directory will work.
>
> I have done a thorough search of the available instructions, the web,
> FreeBSD and Linux Newsgroups and have not found any information.
>
> Any assistance will be appreciated as I'd like to get this great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ernie
> mailto:jepsr@mindspring.com
I did a search for libxpg at www.google.com and got several hits. It is
the X/Open XPG2 compatibility library. I don't know what that is, but it
sounds like a definite problem with your FreeBSD installation and not
AbiWord. What Window Manager are you using? I pretty sure X/Open is a
window manager...
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