RC3 Install problems

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Jan 3 06:07:36 CET 2005


scott,

if you're installing to anything but /usr (with the possible exception 
of /usr/local), you may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $xfce_prefix/lib 
before trying to run xfce.

    -brian

Scott Horowitz wrote:

> Okay, I'm thoroughly confused. Every Xfce component that I tried to 
> run told me that I'm missing the needed libraries (i.e. xffm says I'm 
> missing libxffm_on_demand). I've tried searching for these shared 
> libraries and the files are nowhere on my computer. What is going on? 
> I've tried clean installs multiple times now to no avail.
>
> For now, I've reverted back to the 4.1.91 fedora rpm's because I got 
> tired of waiting for all of the compiling.
>
> Lost,
> Scott
>
>> I've never had a problem with Xfce until now. I'm using Benedikt's 
>> graphical installer and installing RC3 right over RC2 (as I've 
>> successfully done with each new version of Xfce), but when I tried 
>> restarting X, I hit some errors. I then tried renaming the ~/.config 
>> directory in case that was causing problems, but that didn't help. I 
>> finally just tried uninstalling Xfce and doing a clean install of RC3 
>> and have still encountered the same problem. This is what I currently 
>> get:
>>
>> [stonecrest at x1-6-00-0b-cd-33-e7-2a ~]$ startxfce4
>> /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0.0
>> /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 52: xscreensaver: command not 
>> found
>> Agent pid 11703
>> which: no dbus-launch in 
>> (/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/lib/jre/bin) 
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/xfce4-session: error while loading shared libraries: 
>> libxfsm-4.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>> directory
>> Agent pid 11703 killed
>>
>> I installed all four .bin files (gtk, xfce, xfce-goodies, and 
>> terminal), what could be the problem? I'm running Fedora Core 3. 
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Scott
>
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