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Is it possible to intall libXft.so.2 on WSL?
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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2
Can someone help me out, please?
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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2
Can someone help me out, please?
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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2
Can someone help me out, please?
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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2
Can someone help me out, please?
package-management windows-subsystem-for-linux
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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.
Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.
sudo apt-get install libxft2
You can then check the file availability through locate.
:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2
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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.
Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.
sudo apt-get install libxft2
You can then check the file availability through locate.
:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2
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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.
Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.
sudo apt-get install libxft2
You can then check the file availability through locate.
:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2
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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.
Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.
sudo apt-get install libxft2
You can then check the file availability through locate.
:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2
answered 6 hours ago
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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.
Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.
sudo apt-get install libxft2
You can then check the file availability through locate.
:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2
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