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pseudonomous

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 349

xdvi, texlive,xaw xdvi-xaw: error libXp.so.6 [Solved]

Hello Everybody,

On the off chance that this is helpful for anybody, I would like to point out that libxp is currently not a dependancy for texlive-bin, which provides the xdvi viewer, although libxp is actually neccessary to run xdvi.  If you get an error:

xdvi-xaw: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

installing libxp should clear this up.

I will file a bug report

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damoppi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 18

Re: xdvi, texlive,xaw xdvi-xaw: error libXp.so.6 [Solved]

Yes, indeed! But I see, that the bug is still alive, at least for x64

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: xdvi, texlive,xaw xdvi-xaw: error libXp.so.6 [Solved]

Yes, indeed! But I see, that the bug is still alive, at least for x64

64 bit here:

 pacman -Ql libxp | grep libXp.so
libxp /usr/lib/libXp.so
libxp /usr/lib/libXp.so.6
libxp /usr/lib/libXp.so.6.2.0

Did you install libxp?

damoppi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 18

Re: xdvi, texlive,xaw xdvi-xaw: error libXp.so.6 [Solved]

It works, but the dependency for the packages is still missing, or is it an optional dependency? But if so, why could xdvi be installed and does not start because of a missing library?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: xdvi, texlive,xaw xdvi-xaw: error libXp.so.6 [Solved]

It works, but the dependency for the packages is still missing, or is it an optional dependency? But if so, why could xdvi be installed and does not start because of a missing library?

That's an excellent question. xdvi is owned by texlive-bin, but from what I can tell, none of texlive has libxp or anything that it depends on as a dependency. I'll file a bug report.

By the way, welcome to the forums.

--EDIT--

It's already done:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12322