Re: Newbie question: X not working.

[Bill Bland <wjb@netpd.com>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Philip Charles wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Bill Bland wrote:
> 
> > Hi Phil,
> > 	Thanks for the advice but it dowsn't look like that's quite
> > it.  It looks (to my naive newbie eye) like I'm missing another
> > library (see below) that's stopping xlibs from being configured
> > (if that makes any sense).  Anyway, here's the output of "apt-get install
> > xlibs" so you can see for yourself.
> 
> libXft is in xlibs.
> 
...
> 
> 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).

Best wishes,
		Bill.