New REBOL Distributions and Library Dependencies

REBOL/View on Debian 3.1r1 x86

We now support Debian Linux 3.1 as a standard REBOL platform, and this release should work for other Debian-based versions of Linux as well.

REBOL/View requires that these libraries be installed on your system:

libfreetype.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXt.so.6
libXaw.so.7
libXmu.so.6
libstdc++.so.5
libm.so.6
libdl.so.2
libgcc_s.so.1
libc.so.6
libz.so.1
libSM.so.6
libICE.so.6
libXpm.so.4
/lib/ld-linux.so.2

All libraries are provided on the standard 3.1r1 distribution CDROM and can be installed with the Synapse package manager.

REBOL/View on Ubuntu 5.10 x86

These libraries are required in order to run REBOL/View on Ubuntu Linux:

libfreetype.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXt.so.6
libXaw7.so.7
libXmu.so.6
libstdc++.so.6
libm.so.6
libdl.so.2
libgcc_s.so.1
libc.so.6
libSM.so.6
libICE.so.6

All libraries are provided on the standard 5.10 distribution CDROM and can be installed with the Synapse package manager.

REBOL/View on OpenBSD 3.8 x86

These libraries are required in order to run REBOL/View:

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.40.0
/usr/lib/libm.so.2.0
/usr/lib/libc.so.38.2
/usr/libexec/ld.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so.13.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.9.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.9.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.9.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.11.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.9.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.8.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.8.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.7.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.9.0

Determining Library Dependencies

After you download REBOL, if you need to determine what libraries are required to run it, type:

ldd rebol

If you are missing libs, they will be noted as "not found".