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wreck

Member

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 18

X font problem - libfreetype removed

Whenever I try to start X or use "X -configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I receive an error message
stating - "X: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory."  This most likely occurred while blindly following the wiki
in an attempt to make fonts look crisper/cleaner on my LCD.  I commented out "load freetype"
in my xorg.conf file which did not solve the problem.  I also performed a few pacman searches
which returned no results, though my query skills are still being honed.  Any advice toward
solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.  In the interest of nostalgia I registered
on these forums and wrote this post in lynx and I'm missing my desktop environment having written
this for the second time...

brebs

Member

Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: X font problem - libfreetype removed

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 is owned by freetype2-ubuntu 2.3.5-2

See cairo-ubuntu, if you want the best LCD font-rendering.