Another missing library

James McDonald james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
Fri Dec 5 06:17:06 CET 2003


>   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".
>
>   I searched google for 'libatk' and found a bunch of rpms. This library
> is
> apparently a part of the accessibility capabilities. Well, I didn't
> install those because I didn't think I needed them.
>
>   Is there a package I should install, or is there another solution?

It's part of the GTK+ suite which has three major dependencies, GLib,
Pango and ATK

I'm fairly certain you need ATK for a lot of stuff if you are going to be
compiling any gtk2 apps

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/atk-1.0.3.tar.bz2

-- 
James McDonald
Systems Engineer

Singleton NSW Australia





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