Re: Problems running Gnome on Solaris SPARC

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

Jonathan Bruce wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've installed the Solaris packages and when I attempt to run
> gnome-session I get...
> 
> ld.so.1: screensaver-properties-capplet: fatal: libtiff.so.3: open
> failed: No such file or directory
> ld.so.1: background-properties-capplet: fatal: libtiff.so.3: open
> failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Anybody got any idea how I can resolve this ? U jave my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and PATH variables set correctly...
> 

Try ldd `which screensaver-properties-capplet`, see what it says.

I get:

libtiff.so =>    /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so

Perhaps ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.3
will do the trick?

Do you have such a file? If not, you may need to get and install
the tiff-3.4 library.

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