Java application installation reports "libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

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Issue

  • We are receiving an error during installation of a Java application. The error seems to be related to our default JRE installation and is reporting that it need the libXtst.so.6 library.

  • The following stack trace is shown:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /<install path>/Linux/resource/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(Unknown Source)
    at sun.awt.DebugHelper.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.example.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.g(DashoA8113)
    at com.example.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.h(DashoA8113)
    at com.example.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA8113)
    at com.example.ia.installer.Main.main(DashoA8113)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.example.launch(DashoA8113)
    at com.example.lax.LAX.main(DashoA8113)

Environment

  • [x86_64] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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