help! -- acroread failing to launch

[epilogue at allstream.net]

hi lowell,

problem already solved.   it may have been confusing because my last
reply didn't follow the usual '>' indent format.  i had to cut and paste
the message from the website, because i never received a copy of the
message.

thanks for your offer to help.


cheers,
epi. 


On 07 May 2004 15:24:13 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:

> epilogue at allstream.net writes:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> acroread wants libXt.so.6 and can't find it.
> Is it installed?
> 
> Note that pkgdb can fix what its own database thinks are the
> dependencies for acroread, but if acroread *actually* needs
> linux_base-7, then, well, that's what it needs.  You might be able to
> get away with just copying in the libraries that acroread complains
> are missing.
>