Re: Newbie question: X not working.

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Bill Bland wrote:

> > I suspect that other fonts depend on libXft, so probably this lib has been
> > installed and works.  First guess, not a dependency problem as such, but a
> > problem with xfonts-scalable.
> > 
> > Could you check that libXft.so.1 is on your system?
> 
> Phil,
> 	/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 exists and is a symlink to
> /X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.1 (which also does exist).
> 

Thanks.  The problem is not with the CD, but almost certainly with
xfonts-scalable.  Could someone please check and/or fix?

Phil.

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