[Elecraft] K3 utility on Xubuntu 11.10 .. help needed

[Dan Smith]

> I see the error saying it can't find libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

This is probably because the binary is 32-bit and you're on a 64-bit distro.

> /usr/lib32/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> can be found in Package ia32-libs

This is what you want. It's the 32-bit version of the library, purely
for the purpose of letting you run 32-bit applications on your 64-bit
system.

> I can't immediately try installing any of those packages earlier
> today, I already tried installing the libgtk2.0-0 package got a
> message that it was already installed on the machine but afterwards I
> was still unable to locate the needed libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 file
> anywhere on the machine

Right, you already have the 64-bit version installed (lots of stuff
wouldn't work if you didn't).

> since my linux skills are quite rusty, my question is: when I do get
> the missing ibgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 file installed I think, I will also
> need to create a sys link in the directory where the 
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 gets installed to the directory where the k3util
> expects to find it, some thing like ln -s /usr/something/something
> /usr/something/something_else

Nope, just installing the ia32-libs package should do everything you need.

> as you can see I definatly need some degree of elmering with this so
> please contact me off list and I will post a summation reply when I
> get this ironed out and working

Hopefully you don't mind an on-list reply as I can imagine other folks
might've hit the same problem!

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