Hi,

I've just installed RHEL v4.7.
I was used to use "yum" to do everything...
And i'm not very good with "up2date" and "rpm"

I've have a missing library:
error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

So i've tried to install "openmotif".

# rpm -qa openmotif
openmotif-2.2.3-10.2.el4

# up2date openmotif

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-es-4...
########################################

Fetching rpm headers...

Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------


The following packages you requested are already updated:
openmotif

So it existe the package but it can't find it...

what's the problem?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Looking at your post I thought about running a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system, but I checked and the openmotif package on RHEL 4 provides both the 32-bit and the 64-bit version of libXm.so.3. Can I ask you which application triggered the missing shared library error? If it is an ELF executable, can you try the following commands?
In particular the second one will check what shared objects are required by the executable and list them along with their absolute path. Then you can check if you're missing the library where it is expected to be.

You can also check the integrity of the installed openmotif package, using

Thank you.

But after looking for informations about the problem, i noticed that openmotif is finally installed...

For my library problem, i can't explain why it doesn't find the library.
I checked with the library presence:

# ldconfig
# ldconfig -p |grep -i libXm.so.3
libXm.so.3 (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3

and it's here but i get the same error:

$ et
Starting CADENCE/ET72/tools.lnx86/tb/tcl/main/guiMainForm.tcl
CADENCE/ET72/tools.lnx86/tb/bin/64bit/ILMserver: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ file et
Korn shell script text executable
$ ldd et
not a dynamic executable

Strange...

Uh, sorry but I did a mistake (indeed it sounded strange to me). Two different openmotif packages exist: the 32-bit version providing /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 and the 64-bit version providing /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXm.so.3. You can verify if you have one of them or both installed using:
The above is the output on my system with both versions installed. Then you can verify the shared objects required by the real binary executable, which is the file reported in the error line:
Looking at the path of the executable I suspect it is a 64-bit application and you have only the 32-bit version of openmotif. If this is the case you can try to install the 64-bit package using

hi colucix,

Thank you for your help.

Yep, it seems that only the package for arch i386 is present:

and
yep, now i understand why it didn't work correctly because of the arch of the library.
The korn script search for libXm.so.3 for x86_64 arch and it existe only for the 1386 arch.

How could i installed openmotif the arch of x86_64 that seems it doesn't existe...

Thank you in advance.

Maybe you have to check the software repositories. I can confirm I have openmotif-2.2.3-10.2.el4 64-bit on a RHEL4 machine. Or eventually download it manually through your Red Hat Network account.

To force to install the package:

Very good!

I was looking through your the messages within this thread and tried to execute the recommended statements. However, I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (RHEL-5.1) installed on my PC and just installed/configured Razor v5.2 (a configuration management tool consisting of three applications: issues, versions and threads).

I was able to activate the license and bring up Razor. However, when entering the statement:

"[appl] &", where [appl] is either "issues", "versions" or "threads"

I receive the following error message:

"error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

I performed an ldd command on the full path that each application resides and discovered that the libXm.so.3 and libXp.so.6 variables were missing. Further investigation revealed references to openmotif, which is not installed with RHEL-5.1. Please advise on what to do from here (I've been spinning my wheels on a task that should have been cut-and-dry to take only a day at most, but has taken me 3 days--AND I'M STILL NOT FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY!!!). Thank you.

John

I do not have Red Hat Enterprise 5 for checking, but based on CentOS 5.2 it looks like the shared object libXm.so.3 is provided by a compatibility openmotif package, that is an older version of openmotif, since the current one provides libXm.so.4. On my system it is named openmotif22. Regarding libXp.so.6, it is provided by a package with the same name: libXp.

newly compiled Motif (not lesstiff!!) by ?IST?redhat? (on sourceforge)

names itself libXm.so.3 3+ and is NOT COMPATIBLE with libXm.so.2

ie, xpdf, ddd (the wonderful gdb GUI front end) work with libXm.so.2.n not .so.3 unless you have hacked versions of (ddd) which are altered.

libXm.so.2.x has versions 0-3 and 2.3 should run 2.0 apps.

but so.3 runs ONLY newly compiled motif apps which look for .so.3 (ie, recompiling an Xm 2 app will many not mean it will work on Xm 3, not necessarily, it may still ask for Xm.so.2 - depends on Makefiles and etc)

(any pkgs / binaries compiled against lesstiff require lesstiff which is NOT motif compatible but steals the libXm.so name. you can fix either / run both using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, see ld(1) ). most old linux bins are lesstif ones but recompile them for Motif they work better than ever (lesstif has more bugs?)

there's an effort by ?ist? to add many features quickly to libXm (ie, more fonts, encryption, png) to turn it into a gnome-like library

that's good for future developement to rival java but, again, isn't useful at all for Motif products already released (2.n projects or products)

with iphone / X code , regnome: XFCE, java IDE, its unsure if "an improved libXm" will prevail in use anytime as Motif / X Designer or metrolink BXPRO IDE did.

for that reason - i'm unsure why they "needed to be incompatible with 2.0 - 2.3"

(that is, if you adding new features you CLEARLY HAVE THE CHOICE to rename hacked new features and let new software use the new names, so that existing software is not attacked)

here's what i do: i use 2.0'ish

http://sourceforge.net/projects/motif250/ (the one with new desktop panner)

and i recompile a few apps (just xpdf and ddd so far) (because my binaries use lesstiff)

the recompiled apps work nicely with real Motif

for libXm.so.3 , i have yet to download any source code that requires it

for libXm.so.3 i'd get motif-3.2.4 , which makes it , and have that installed as well

if you are still using RHEL 4.7
you have a problem
only 4.9 is on extra life support
and you have to pay extra for it
and it is rhel4.9 only