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RE: cygpng2.dll missing
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Joshua Lokken" <joshualokken at attbi dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:38:14 +0200
- Subject: RE: cygpng2.dll missing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Joshua Lokken
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: cygpng2.dll missing
>
>
> Hello, all:
>
> Cygwin is great so far!!
>
> Question: After installing KDE and all of the
> required stuff, when I
> run kdeinit, I get an error message:
> The application was not started...cygpng2.dll was not
> found. Reinstalling the application could solve this
> problem.
>
> Which package installs this dll? I first noticed
> the error after
> installing kdelibs, and before installing kdebase.
Install the libpng package from the cygwin setup
> Also, where does the kde startup script need to reside?
>
The startup script "startkde" resides in /opt/kde2/bin. See
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/faq.php#B12
for detailed instructions to start kde with startx
Regards
Ralf