linux-firefox

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Thu Aug 31 01:07:21 UTC 2006


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:17 -0400
Pete C <bsdneo at thechristies.net> wrote:

> did a 'make install' for linux-firefox I got an error that  
> libXfixes.so.3 (as part of linux-glib2, IIRC) could not be found . . .  
> after some googling and a few bad leads for some reason I did another  
> make install and got no errors . . . but now linux-firefox won't run  
> because libXfixes.so.3 is missing . . .

What linux- packages have you installed?

$ pkg_info | grep linux
linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary
linux-atk-1.9.1     Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary
linux-blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_3 Blackdown Java Development Kit 1.4 for Linux
linux-expat-1.95.8  Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
linux-firefox-1.5.0.6 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
linux-flashplugin-7.0r63_1 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_5 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig
linux-glib2-2.6.6   Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib
linux-gtk2-2.6.10   GTK+ library, version 2.X, Linux binary
linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme shell from the
FreeDesktproject
linux-jpeg-6b.34    RPM of the JPEG lib
linux-mplayerplug-in-3.25 Embed MPlayer into browser
linux-pango-1.8.1   Linux pango binary
linux-png-1.2.8_2   RPM of the PNG lib
linux-realplayer-10.0.7.785.20060201 Linux RealPlayer 10 from RealNetworks
linux-tiff-3.7.1    TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary
linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries
linux_base-fc-4_8   Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
linux_dri-6.5       Binary Linux DRI libraries for 3D hardware acceleration of
linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_4 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with
native applica


and:
$ locate libXfixes
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3.0
/usr/ports/x11/libXfixes
/usr/ports/x11/libXfixes/Makefile
/usr/ports/x11/libXfixes/distinfo
/usr/ports/x11/libXfixes/pkg-descr
/usr/ports/x11/libXfixes/pkg-plist

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