Re: Newbie question: X not working.

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

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, lode leroy wrote:

> > Running xftcache in Speedo font directory...xftcache: error while loading 
> shared libraries: libXft.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> 
> do the following:
>     # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib
>     # apt-get (or dselect or gui.sh)
> 
> that should solve the issue at hand.
> 

So if 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib
is inserted towards the beginning of gui.sh this would be a suitable work
round until there is a proper fix.

Phil.

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