Re: edm font init failed solution

[Matthieu Bec <mbec@gemini.edu>]

Hi John,

you need to get libXt-devel. That provides /usr/lib/libXt.so softlink to 
libXt.so.6.0.0

Matthieu


Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Adding:
>
> Section "Files"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> EndSection
>
> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf worked for me
>
> > We added to the bug... we'll see what we hear back.  In the mean time
> > the following command executed on the fc8 machine that you're trying
> > to display on will fix the problem.
> >
> > xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi 
>
> No problem with 75dpi ...so far ;-)
>
> > Now could someone tell us how to get edm to compile on fc8? We're
> > having trouble because it wants to link with libXt.a, and we're not
> > finding that in the fc8 rpms.
>
> [root@clark ~]# yum info libXt
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Installed Packages
> Name   : libXt
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 1.0.4
> Release: 3.fc8
> Size   : 351 k
> Repo   : installed
> Summary: X.Org X11 libXt runtime library
> Description:
> X.Org X11 libXt runtime library
>
> [root@clark ~]# rpm -ql libXt
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0
> /usr/share/X11/app-defaults
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4/AUTHORS
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4/COPYING
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4/ChangeLog
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4/NEWS
> /usr/share/doc/libXt-1.0.4/README
>
> I don't have it either :-(
> fortunately I do not need edm on my f8 machine.
> Good luck!
>
> > John Skinner and Matt Cowan
> > BNL/NSL


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