Thanks! :) ... let me reboot into NetBSD and try that out. Hopefully I find 
that file ... or else I might try reinstalling only the X11 package once 
more.

""Ricardo L. A. Bánffy"" <rbanffy@utopia.com.br> wrote in message 
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> "find / -name 'libXau.so.6'" should do (it exists on GNU/* - no BSD box 
> around right now, at least)
>
> I was musing with "man ls" but then I realized I am on a Debian box and a 
> lot of little stuff is quite different between BSD and the GNU tools 
> (Linux is, after all, only a kernel) so any advice I could have given 
> would probably be useless. I suspect you can "ls | grep" your way out of 
> this, but can't tell you exactly how.
>
> When it comes to BSD, I am a newbie.
>
> Robin L. wrote:
>> What I found out as well is that the file "libXau.so.6" cannot be found 
>> in the /usr/X11/lib/ directory.
>>
>> btw, what's the command for search or find? ;)
>>
>> Thx!
>>
>> Robin
>