Installed Nedit on FC 6

[Eddy De Greef]

John Penk wrote:
> I have an up-to-date FC 6 system.  I downloaded the nedit-5.5 tar file.  I copied both the nedit and nc executables to /usr/X11R6/bin.  When I try to run nedit, I get the following error:
> 
> nedit: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I have libXP.so.4 on my system but no .6.  libXP.so.4 is provided by the RPM libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.  I don't find any newer release of this libXpm-devel RPM on rpmseek.org.  
> 
> A message on this list said I should install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs RPM to solve the problem.  I only find this for FC 3 & 4.
> 
> Any idea how to get nedit installed?

Try the libXp rpm. It looks like they've put it in a separate rpm in FC6:

http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/libXp.html?hl=com&cs=libXp.so.6:PR:0:0:0:0
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/6/i386/libXp-1.0.0-8.i386.html

Eddy