I get this error when trying to start Boinc Manager from Terminal window:

./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


This is a new install of Fedora Core 4 with the XWindows installed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Dave

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I get this error when trying to start Boinc Manager from Terminal window:

./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


This is a new install of Fedora Core 4 with the XWindows installed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Dave

Open a terminal window (if in your window manager), change to your BOINC directory and run 'ldd' on boincmgr. If everything is ok the output should look _something_ like this:

:~$ cd BOINC
:~/BOINC$ ldd boinc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f1e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e01000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7dde000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7dcc000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3c000)
:~/BOINC$ ldd boincmgr
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f41000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e76000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e72000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d56000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7d33000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d21000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f69000)

Fedora may keep stuff in different places from Slackware, but libXext should still be somewhere in your path. I suspect that your installation of XWindows _may_ be incomplete.

Good Luck!

PS: The file could even have the wrong permissions. Also is this the only program you have this error with? A lot of programs use that library these days.

One of the Linux guru's could probably give you more complete advice than this.

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