Hi -
Running Slackware 10.1 and just installed xemacs. Won't start can't find
lib libaudio.so.2. Any ideas? Googled and couldn't find anything
relevent. Thanks John

Sat, 07 May 2005 09:44:35 +0200 - John <segmentdump@chello.se> :
> Hi -
> Running Slackware 10.1 and just installed xemacs. Won't start can't find
> lib libaudio.so.2. Any ideas? Googled and couldn't find anything
> relevent. Thanks John

XEmacs is not provided with Slackware Linux 10.1. You would better
try to build it from source instead of using third party, badly
designed, binary packages.

The package you try to use has probably been built on a Slackware
system with tons of third party packages : when XEmacs has been
built on it, it has been linked against a library present on this
system but not provided with Slackware Linux 10.1.

If you want to seach for a file in the official Slackware packages,
you can try the package browser on the official Slackware web site :

http://www.slackware.com/pb/

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LiNuCe

John wrote :

> Running Slackware 10.1 and just installed xemacs. Won't start can't find
> lib libaudio.so.2. Any ideas?

Looks like you have installed a precompiled package and the builder of
this package has for some reason build XEmacs against NAS (Network Audio
System).

You can do one out of two. Install NAS or contact the maintainer of the
package because this is IMHO a mistake.

Or you could go get the tarball and compile XEmacs yourself.
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Thomas O.

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* John <segmentdump@chello.se> writes:

> Running Slackware 10.1 and just installed xemacs. Won't start
> can't find lib libaudio.so.2. Any ideas?

Yes.

Get rid of that pre-compiled 3rd party unofficial XEmacs binary
package you have there. Then grab the XEmacs source tarball and
compile it yourself.

If you have any problems along the way, comp.emacs.xemacs is the place
to go.

Have fun.

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