[SOLVED] X11 lib installed but not found

caelum1955 · 07-04-2012, 11:16 PM

This is my first post. Used Ubuntu for several years. I'm on an amd64 machine. Just installed Debian and found that according to synaptic libX11-6 is installed, but when a program tries to access libX11 I get:

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error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

dpkg -s libx11 shows:

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Package `libx11' is not installed and no info is available.

gcc -libX11 shows:

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -libX11

ldd (myprogram) shows:

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libX11.so.6 => not found

How can synaptic show that libX11 in installed but nothing can find it? Puzzled!?

evo2 · 07-05-2012, 12:09 AM

Hi,

what is this program that can't find libX11.so.6? Did you compile it yourself? Is it a 32 or 64 bit binary?

The package that provides this should be libX11-6, and the file should be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (at least that is the situation on Sid).

Evo2.

caelum1955 · 07-05-2012, 12:28 AM

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what is this program that can't find libX11.so.6? Did you compile it yourself? Is it a 32 or 64 bit binary?

The program is rebol from www.rebol.com. I did not compile it myself. I am fairly sure it is 32 bit binary?

caelum1955 · 07-05-2012, 12:33 AM

Thanks for your reply evo2, your questions put me on the right track.

After installing ia32-libs everything works. Hope that helps another linux user who wants to use rebol, rebview, rebcmdview, the Rebol SDK or any other program from www.rebol.com.

evo2 · 07-05-2012, 12:59 AM

Hi,

glad you were able to get it working: this is a common issue when trying to run 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit system. Please use "Thread Tools" dropdown menu near the top of the page to mark the thead as "[SOLVED]".

Cheers,

Evo2.