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Hi.

Run "ldd" on the binary. What do you get? Send it here.
Also check your /etc/ld.so.conf and see if it contains
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib . If it doesn't add it there.

Run "ldconfig -p | grep libX11" and send here what you get.



Jonathan Alexander Daniel writes:
 > I successfully installed Applixware 4.3 on my system when I had Red Hat 4.2
 > installed.  Recently I had to reinstall Linux and when I did, I installed
 > with Red Hat 5.1.  I also had to reinstall Applixware 4.3, which
 > successfully reinstalled, but when I try to run it, I get the message, 
 > 
 > "unable to load libX11.so.6"
 > 
 > A friend of mine also has Applixware 4.3 installed on his Red Hat 5.1
 > system without this problem.  
 > 
 > I used the command find / -name "*libX11.so.6*" -print to find this file
 > and found that there are three of them, 
 > 
 > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
 > /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.6
 > /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6
 > 
 > All of these are soft links.
 > 
 > The first one goes to 
 > 
 > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
 > 
 > The second goes to 
 > 
 > /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.6.0
 > 
 > The third goes to 
 > 
 > /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6.1
 > 
 > I found that these files were different in size than on my friend's system,
 > but he sent me his files and I replaced these files but got the same
 > results.
 > 
 > I called Applix and they told me that the problem was probably that the 4.3
 > version of Applixware that Red Hat sold was designed for Red Hat 4.2 and
 > this was probably the source of the problem.  So I talked to someone at Red
 > Hat who was unable to solve the problem.  Also my friend told me that he
 > had recently installed Applixware 4.3 on his Red Hat 5.1 system without any
 > problems.
 > 
 > Any clues?
 > 
 > Later,
 > Jonathan Daniel
 > jalexd@escape.com

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