When I'm trying to run some kind of programs like evolutions I see a warning:
evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
What should I do? I grabed libXinerama.so.1 from the inet but where should I put it?
Please help me with that!! Thank you in advance!

try /usr/lib or /lib.why evolution needs libXinerama.so.1?you can look at readme and it should be in /usr/share/doc/evolution.more information from its website you can get

good luck

AFAIK libXinerama is part of Xfree and should be installed on your system. If you do a "locate libXinerama" then you should see /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a. I've had the same problem with X not wanting to start after removing and installing KDE. The solution (pillaged from another site) was to do this as root:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib
ld --whole-archive -share -o libXinerama.so.1 libXinerama.a
ln -s libXinerama.so.1 libXinerama.so
/sbin/ldconfig

after restart your X. Your mileage may vary.

hi kovacs,
i've got the same prob on my redhat 9 trying to install videolan...
I tryied your solution, but yet it won't find the damn libxinerama.so.1...

got any other idea???

thx the G.

I got the same problem and discover you need XFree86-Devel installed in addition to the solution sent by Kovacs.

nope,
i already have XFree-devel installed...

frustrating...

I tried to install the latest k3b on my Slackware 9.1 but got some dependency errors. Got those sorted and came up with the libxinerama one. Upgraded XFree and toasted my setup.

After reinstalling Slack I installed a k3b tgz which was set up for kde 3.1 (which is installed although I don't run it as a wm) and all works fine.

Has made me wonder of the lixinerama dependency isn't related to needing kde 3.2?

Tis a thought? What kde version y'all running?

KDE 3.2.2 on Slack Current (up-to-date)

FYI: If you upgrade KDE to 3.2.x, you'll need to upgrade XFree86 to 4.4.0 for the libXinerama, else compile KDE without libXinerama support...........

it's not true, i upgrade my xfree to 4.4.0 whit xfree devel 4.4.0, etc. and that change everything under my slack, i had to go back to the old xfree whit their devels, etc. and i tried to run certain apps and got the libxinerama.so.1 error message. even i was having all xfree needed thing, i go to /usr/X11R6/libs and saw libxinerama.a but nothing reflect to libxinerama.so.1 i did what Kovacs says and all my apps needing libxinerama.so.1 begin to work. so that's not a xfree-devel package cause i reinstall xfree a lot of times just to get back libxinerama.so.1 and nothing. you don't had to upgrade kde to upgrade xfree, i had to go back to kde 3.1.4 and xfree 4.0.3 and still no libxinerama.so.1 i upgrade kde to 3.2.1 eevn kde 3.2.2 and still using my same xfree 4.0.3 and now i don't have any libxinerama.so.1 problems after i did Korvac help.

Hmmm....................I had problems with libXinerama with KDE-3.2.1 and when I upgraded XFree to 4.4.0, they went away............ *shrugs*

Where can I get XFree86-4.4 for fedora? (I didn't find at fedora.redhat.com)
Thx

LOL..........Have you tried asking in the Fedora section........this is the Slackware section..

I imagine you might have some luck at Rpmfind...........

I didn't notice that

don't know if most of you solved the problems, but keep in mind that librarie names are case sensitive

libX<anything>.a libX<anything.so.1