Problems with emacs

apth · 04-16-2008, 06:14 PM

Hey all.

I'm a complete noob to Linux in general, been a Windows bunny until tonight.
Just installed Slackware on a spankingly new PC, and I'm having all sorts of fun trying to make things work, and for the most part I'm doing ok.

The one thing I haven't been able to problemsolve my way through is emacs.
When i try and load it, it throws the following error:

Code:

emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Unsure how to proceed from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Phlogisten · 04-16-2008, 11:45 PM

If you want to run emacs only in text-mode ( at the console or inside an xterm ), then cd to
/usr/bin/ , remove the symbolic link 'emacs' and make a new symlink that points to 'emacs-<version>-no-x11'.

If you want to use emacs's X11 interface , install the package 'xaw3d-1.5-i486-4.tgz'.

apth · 04-17-2008, 01:55 AM

That worked perfectly.

Thanks!