Another missing library

Biju Chacko biju_chacko at vsnl.net
Fri Dec 5 05:16:11 CET 2003


On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:30:07 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >   I hosed my new laptop and had to reinstall Slackware-9.1. That's fine. I
> > also reinstalled xfce-4.0.1*tgz. That went OK. Also installed
> > startup-notification (just in case). However, ...
> >
> >   ... there is an error: "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel: error while loading shared
> > libraries: libatk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file, no such file or
> > directory".
> 
>   Fixed. I tracked down the library to the atk package (which has
> accessibility stuff for Gnome). Since I did not install Gnome it's no wonder
> that package was missing. Sigh.
> 
>   Anywho, I installed the package and now X fires up just fine.

It's actually part of the accessability part of gtk2. It's needed for GTK2 to
work properly.

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