Re: xaralx package

On 15 September 2016 at 11:34, Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> wrote:

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

Dear All,

I tried installing xaralx on another machine I have running Debian Jessie cf stretch above.

the tar file seemed to extract properly and I can see the executable:

mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx$ ls

bin mime-storage share xaralx.desktop xaralxHelp.tar.gz xaralx.png xaralx.xml

mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx$ cd bin

mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$ ls

xaralx xarasvgfilter xarasvgfilterui

mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$ ls -l

total 33652

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 24330484 Aug 10 2006 xaralx

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 6453151 Aug 10 2006 xarasvgfilter

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 3669331 Aug 10 2006 xarasvgfilterui

mikef@rhinoceros:~/Documents/xaralx/bin$

looks encouraging.......

But

when I try to run the executable the error I get is:

failed to execute child process

/home/mikef/Documents/xaralx/bin/xaralx (No such file or directory)

But the directory and file do exist...

What I am I doing wrong here?

Regards

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