PyQt on a Server

[Phil Thompson]

This is likely to be a Qt/X setup problem - PyQt doesn't explicitly call
Xrender.

Does your workstation /etc/ld.so.conf contain a line for /usr/X11R6/lib?

Phil

> I have an application importing qt on a linux server and am missing
> something in trying to run it from a workstation via nfs. The
> workstation has the server /usr directory mounted to its own /usr
> directory, so it can access the necessary files. The error I get is
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/demo/revenues.py", line 24, in ?
>     from qt import *
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/qt.py", line 24, in ?
>     import libsip
> ImportError: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
>   No such file or directory
>
> I can see the file in /usr/X11R6/lib. So maybe there is a path variable
> that qt.py uses and that has to be set on the workstation. If so, I don't
> know how to find it. Thanks for any help.
>
> Bob
>
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> Bob Parnes
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