Matlab throwing errors about not finding libXp.so.6

[Russell Gillette]

On 5/17/10 7:49 PM, Bay E. Grabowski wrote:
> Sorry for getting back to the list so late, I don't have constant access
> to the server. Anyways, attempting to install libXp did not work, giving
> the error "No package libXp available." I am running 64-bit RHEL and
> 64-bit Matlab, if it makes a difference. Thanks for your help so far.

Bay,

looks like it's provided by the libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.x86_64 RPM:

[root at x1950 ~]# yum whatprovides /usr/lib64/libXp.so.6
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
rhel-x86_64-server-5                                     | 1.3 kB 
00:00
primary.xml.gz                                           | 3.2 MB 
00:07
rhel-x86_64-server-5                                           9416/9416
Importing additional filelist information
filelists.xml.gz                                         |  16 MB 
00:42
rhel-x86_64-server-5                                           9416/9416
libXp-1.0.0-8.x86_64 : X.Org X11 libXp runtime library
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libXp.so.6



libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.x86_64 : X.Org X11 libXp runtime library
Matched from:
Other       : Provides-match: /usr/lib64/libXp.so.6

If you have an RHN login, you should be able to download the RPM from there.
--russellg