On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:51, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > ---------- quoting Joshua Banks ---------- > > As root: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin # /usr/bin/xpdf /home/jbanks/501302.pdf > > /usr/bin/xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > This file belongs to package openmotif. > I would suggest you remerge that package: > > $ emerge x11-libs/openmotif > > ... and retry to start xpdf afterwards. Please report success or failure.
As simple and friendly as this recommendation seems, I get really tired of hearing only part of the story. <rant> There are so many posting threads that read: Q. What do I do for <pick in a problem> A. You need to emerge <pick in a package> again Q. Why didn't it get emerged properly the first time? A. ?????? Why in blazes is it necessary to re-emerge packages? I almost never see this problem on my system. Is there a common problem here and thus a common solution? What is the rest of the story? I can understand when the USE variables must be changed, but why are there so many recommendations to re-emerge without any obvious changes? </rant> -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Gentoo stable -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
