The xemacs included with RH5.2 is linked against libpng.so.0, which is not included, nor (apparently) listed as a dependency. % ldd /usr/bin/xemacs libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x40007000) libpng.so.0 => not found libjpeg.so.6 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6 (0x4003c000) ... % xemacs xemacs: error in loading shared libraries libpng.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ... % locate libpng.so /usr/lib/libpng.so /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0
xemacs isn't in 5.2