On 25 Jul 2000, Alan P. Kennedy, Sr wrote: > When I start xmms I get the following errors: > > libesd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > libxml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Is this because of missing dependencies?
Yes. Looks like you're missing a few packages there (including libesd0, libmikmod0, etc). Try an 'apt-get update ; apt-get -u upgrade' and see if it says that it's going to install some packages. If so, let it :-) BTW, I'm assuming this is potato...correct? > I had another small problem. ppp would not work with older version of > linux ppp. If it is important I could dig out the error messages, but > don't have them on hand right now. I had to upgrade to > ppp-2.4.0b2.tar.gz in order to get ppp to work. What was interesting > is that ppp worked fine with my isp. Found the solution in the Linux > usenet newsgroups. For the record this was in the i386 distribution > also. Hmmm...what kernel version are you running? I know there was some problems with some versions (can't recall exactly which, but I can search if needed). > PS: I can compile some debs if needed. No thanks. I can handle the few that look like they need to be recompiled. Thanks for the offer, though :-) C
