On Sat 13 Jul, Chris Baird wrote:
> 
> >> Where does libXaw.so.7 come from?
> 
> The openoffice package was compiled on a system with XFree4
> by the looks of it.

Thanks. I'm using 1.5.2 with X3.3.6. Is getting X 4.x the only way to go?


> > Or, in my case, libXaw.so.6 is actually a symlink to libXaw.so.6.1,
> > so I symlinked libXaw.so.7 to libXaw.so.6.1 as well and everything
> > works (on 1.5.2).
> 
> That's...a bad thing to do. Every program compiled afterwards will
> want to refer to the higher version shared library, and things will
> break in future upgrades. I learnt this through experience. :)
 

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