[tex-live] libXaw.so.8 on x86_64

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 01:35:53 CEST 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my system
>
> ~$ uname -a
> Linux hahepc1 2.6.22-3-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 09:22:35 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> (which is current debian-lenny/testing) gives with TL2008 binaries:
>
> ~$ xdvi /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/plain/cweb/cwebman.dvi
> xdvi-xaw: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ~$ locate libXaw.so
> /usr/lib/libXaw.so
> /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7
>
> what do?

Use pdf(la)tex! Build your own?  Use the 32-bit version or a .dvi
viewer from your distro ((e.g., kdvi)?  In 32-bit (on Fedora 8) things
look more likely to succeed:

$ ldd /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux/xdvi-xaw | grep Xaw
	libXaw.so.7 => /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x00d82000)

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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