libxcb.so dependency on Ubuntu

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libxcb.so dependency on Ubuntu #23

Closed stevedonovan closed 4 years ago

stevedonovan commented 5 years ago

I had to install the package xcb first, and then do the usual symlink dance from libxcb.so.1.1.0 to libxcb.so for the linker to pick it up. (For some reason, Debian/Ubuntu no longer provide the unadorned symlink in place). Then happiness happened.

Unfortunately does not understand shift-arrow to mean selection.....

keith-hall commented 5 years ago

I also had some problems building Smith on Ubuntu 18.04, I got some super cryptic error messages like:

  = note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-xfixes
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I had no idea what an -lxcb-xfixes was, but managed to resolve it with:

sudo apt-get install xcb libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

(and didn't need to symlink anything)

IGI-111 commented 4 years ago

Added some message about the libraries one might need to install. Closing this.