xgterm: failed to launch on Kubuntu AMD64

Yuxi wrote on Mar 20, 2008

Astronomers,

I have a 64-bit AMD machine running Kubuntu 7.10 Gusty (kernel
2.6.22-14-generic). I tried to run xgterm on a remote file server (32-bit), but xgterm failed to launch with the following error msg:

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xgterm: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.3.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
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I've installed libtcl8.3 and the problem continues.

I also tried to follow the instructions to install an xgterm on my local
machine.

http://mjhutchinson.com/journal/2006/11/05/install_iraf_on_ubuntu_edgy_amd64

Xgterm installed successfully however when I tried to run it, I got the following msg and xgterm crashed.

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xgterm: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
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I'm wondering if there's a pre-compiled xgterm for AMD64 availble, or if
there're some work-arounds.

Thanks!

Yuxi

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