Using FC5 2.6.20 i386 KDE 3.5.5
Attempting to install DISLIN-9.1.linux.rpm // for use by python
error is libXm.so.3 required

I found several similar postings in the various forums. The
stated solutions so far havent worked for me:
(1) Install openmotif // I have Openmotif 2.3.0 which includes
/usr/lib/libXm.so.4 and /usr/lib/libXm.so.4.0.0

(2)symlink libXm.so.3 -> libXm.so.4.0.0 // this made no difference
(3) check permissions // permissions on the link are root root 777

Any more suggestion?
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As a suggestion try installing openmotif22 from CentOS5, for examples and direct links;

32-bit: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos....3-18.i386.rpm
64-bit: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos...-18.x86_64.rpm

Try installing openmotif22 if it is available. It should supply those libraries. Another thing to try is running "sudo /sbin/ldconfig" so that the system notices the link you made.

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Oops, I had download dislin and the manuals before posting. My research took to long and someone already posted a similar suggestion.

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I just installed it on SuSE 10.2. I added both /usr/local/dislin and /usr/local/dislin/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconf. I also installed the most recent and the openmotif22 and the openmotif devel package versions.

The version here:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin/...1.linux.tar.gz
appears not to be linked against libXm.so.3. I didn't install it, so I'm not sure, but I examined all the binaries. Too bad the source code is not distributed (except for a fee).

You can rebuild the source rpm file:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos...2.3-18.src.rpm

rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile openmotif22-2.2.3-18.src.rpm

it is up to you to meet the dependencies if any are required.

Never mind ----
Thanks for all the suggestions --

My problem was that I should have added --nodeps to the rpm
install command after making the link:
libXm.so.3 -> libXm.so.4.0.0

Dislin/python are now working fine

Regards,
Delnortey

I'm sorry, how did you get this to work? I've got openmotif and its libraries, but I still get this error. How did you symlink these two things?

Using openSUSE 10.2 64 bit, trying to run Z88 (a FEA program).

bumpity bump? I'm still trying to figure this out.

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I linked libXm.so.3 to libXm.so.4.0 with:
ln -s libXm.so.4.0 libXm.so.3
Then I did:
rpm -ivh --nodeps dislin-9.1.linux.rpm

And it worked.

Make sure you check which version of libXm.so.4 you have, it may not be
exactly as shown above.
The --nodeps just tells rpm not to do any dependancy checks,
since libXm.so.4 is an update of libXm.so.3, the linker is
happy.

Good luck
Regards,
Delnortey

It worked! Thanks so much.

My problem was that I was linking things in /usr/lib, but then I realized there was a /usr/lib64, so I tried linking libXm.so.4 to libXm.so.3, but libXm.so.4 was (according to the find tool in gnome) a link, so instead I linked to libXm.so.4.0.0 as so:

while in the /usr/lib64 directory (working directory). But z88's RPM installer was still giving me hell about the dependencies, so I use what you said:

And it worked! Hooray! :: dances ::