help! -- acroread failing to launch

[Christian Hiris]

On Friday 07 May 2004 02:29, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> hi,
>
> i recently uninstalled almost all of my programs, cleaned out the cruft,
> and re-installed only the programs i was actually using.  +2Gb yay!
>
> well, since reinstalling acroread, i'm having problems getting it to run.
> i vaguely recall having the same issue, when i first installed the program
> many moons ago, but do not recall what to do to fix.  here is the error
>
> message:
> > acroread
>
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading
> shared libraries: libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
> > locate libXt.so.6
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
>
> i have tried with and without the following paths in my rc.conf file (with
> reboot, naturally).
>
> ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib
> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ /u sr/compat/linux/lib /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib
> /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib"
>
> ldconfig_paths_aout="/usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
> /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout"
>
> this is the version i have installed:
> acroread-5.08       View, distribute and print PDF documents
>
> finally, the program was installed with portinstall, so all dependencies
> should also have been installed.  i do have linux_base_8 installed
> *instead* of 7, but i fixed that dependency through pkgdb -Fu.  (also, i
> have had it working this way in the past, so this shouldn't be the
> problem).
>
> if anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please let me know.
>

from /ports/emulators/linux_base-8/pkg-descr:
If you want to run X11 applications, install the x11/linux-XFree86-libs port.

hth
ch

>
> thank you very much,
> epi
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