Matlab throwing errors about not finding libXp.so.6

[Greg Cornell]

> Hey, all. I've recently installed RHEL5 to run Matlab-based tools on.
> Installing worked fine, after a bit of cdrom mount wrangling, but I
> get the following error when I try to run "matlab":
> 
> /opt/MATLAB/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB: error while loading shared libraries:
> libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I am running the 64-bit version of RHEL and Matlab. I tried to install
> libXpm, but that did not solve the problem. Running "locate libXp"
> reveals that only libXpm.so.4 was available to the system. Can anyone
> help?
> 

On our RHEL5 32bit systems, libXp.so.6 is owned by the libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5 RPM.

Greg