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Been trying to run rebol-view-278-4-2 on Elementary OS "Freya" (a variant of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).

I keep getting this error:

error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I went ahead and tried to install the missing library but to no avail.

HostileFork says dont trust SE
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VMur
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  • Rebol2 is 32-bit only *(although a 64-bit experimental build of the [old view](http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0552) was put out recently, though the comments suggest it doesn't necessarily work very well)*. If your system is 64-bit it is likely that you do not have the 32-bit version of libXaw. Try getting the `libXaw.i386` package if this is the case. – HostileFork says dont trust SE Jan 31 '16 at 01:45
  • Correction: the 64-bit build is not of view, but of core...the comments *ask* for view. – HostileFork says dont trust SE Jan 31 '16 at 04:05
  • @HostileFork ,Tried to install libxaw.i386 here is what i'm getting : Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libXaw.i386 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libXaw.i386' – VMur Jan 31 '16 at 20:03
  • According to the below you might need a `7` on the libxaw. Note that for things like not being able to get X-Windows 32-bit compatibility installed, it's not really a programming question... see [Ask Ubuntu](http://askubuntu.com/) for any future issues along those lines. – HostileFork says dont trust SE Feb 01 '16 at 05:04

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These are the steps I took to get R2 core and view working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty," so I would imagine that this would also work on Freya:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libx11-6:i386
sudo apt-get install libxext6:i386
sudo apt-get install libxaw7:i386
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6:i386
sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

(I prefer to keep the package install steps separate in case one of them fails.)

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