Re: Problems with loading libraries, ldconfig, etc.

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Hartman <hartman@lanl.gov> writes:

    Daniel> Hello all, I am having trouble getting a commercial app
    Daniel> (matlab V5.3 R11.1) to run in Debian 2.2.  Mathworks (the
    Daniel> makers of matlab) do not support it on Debian 2.2 probably
    Daniel> because it is a libc5 compiled app. Here is the output I
    Daniel> get when attempting to run matlab:

    Daniel>   $ matlab /opt/matlab/V11.1/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load
    Daniel> library 'libXt.so.6'

    Daniel> Ok, so my limited understanding tells me to check ldconfig
    Daniel> for libXt.so.6:

    Daniel>   # ldconfig -v | grep libXt libXtst.so.6 =>
    Daniel> libXtst.so.6.1 libXt.so.6 => libXt.so.6.0

    Daniel> or

    Daniel>   # locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
    Daniel> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

My guess is that this is the libc6 version of the library.

You need the libc5 version of the library.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>