Re: xaralx package

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>]

On 15 September 2016 at 10:59, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:

My suggestion would be install apt-file, either using aptitude or apt-get or synaptic if you prefer.

Then as root:
apt-file update

Once that is done, you can do apt-file search libpangoxft and see what package, if any, in Debian contains it. Then install that package. Or create a dummy package that depends on it and install that, so the library will get removed again if you don't need it later and not clutter your system up.

​Many thanks for the help here!​

 

​I did this and it was the ​

 

​

​

ibpangoxft-1.0

​-dev package that needed to be installed - but this time when I installed it using aptitude it worked.

​But when I tried to run xaralx I got the following error:​

​

michaelmikef@rhubarb:~/Documents/CPI/xaralx/xaralx/bin$ ./xaralx

./xaralx: error while loading shared libraries: l

​​

ibpangoxft-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

​Regards

MF​

​

 

If the package you need turns out to be the one you already tried, we will need to know the exact errors you are getting to help further.

Mark