Including emacs package in kickstart results in dependency failure on libotf.so.0 in RHEL 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Attempting to run emacs will result in the following error.

    emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 uptill and including 6.5
  • emacs-23.1-21.el6_2.3

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