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The "missing text" is all coming from the embedded waveforms;  that might mean that your version of xschem is out of date?
```xschem -version
XSCHEM V3.4.5
Copyright (C) 1998-2023 Stefan Schippers```

Oh, yeah, looks way out of date. V2.8.1.   I just realized magic is out of date, too.  The .magicrc file requires 8.3.411 and I downloaded 8.3.105.  Thanks Tim!

<@U06FKCF4E5T> Likely you have an ancient xschem installed with your linux (I guess Ubuntu) package manager.
Remove the apt installed xschem:
`sudo apt purge xschem`
and reinstall xschem from sources.
<https://xschem.sourceforge.io/stefan/xschem_man/install_xschem.html>

Make sure you get both apps from source and compile (xschem as Stefan mentioned above, magic from <https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/magic>).

Thanks Tim.  I thought I downloaded 8.3.105 from <http://opencircuitdesign.com/> but I see 8.3.460 there now.  I'll download from the github and go from there.

<@U01819B63HP> I purged the xschem version I had and download from Sourceforge.  Two weeks ago I had an off the shelf Windows 11 machine so I've been having to install tools as I go.  I had to add flex, bison, and xpm as I worked through configure.  At xpm I now get this.  Any suggestions?

<@U06FKCF4E5T>:  You're doing this on Windows using WSL (which is an Ubuntu environment)?

If so, you want to do `sudo apt install libxpm-dev` .

That's right, Tim.  Thanks, I'll do that.

<@U06FKCF4E5T> the complete list of packages is in the install page:
```  libX11-6              libx11-dev
  libxrender1           libxrender-dev
  libxcb1               libx11-xcb-dev        
  libcairo2             libcairo2-dev
  tcl8.6                tcl8.6-dev
  tk8.6                 tk8.6-dev
  flex                  bison
  libxpm4               libxpm-dev
                        libjpeg-dev
# terminal program and editor used by default by xschem:
# alternative programs can be specified in xschemrc by 
# setting tcl variables 'terminal' and 'editor', respectively.
  xterm vim-gtk3
# tools that should be available on all systems by default:
  gawk or mawk
# Suggested (not mandatory for using xschem) packages:
  tcl-tclreadline```
In particular libcairo2 and libcairo2-dev allow xschem to use much better looking antialiased fonts and handle png exports.

<@U01819B63HP> the only two packages I did not have or could not install were libX11-6 and libX11-dev.  Neither apt nor apt-get could find the packages.

<@U06FKCF4E5T>:  `libx11-dev`, no capital "X".

Alright.  Thanks Tim.  It was already installed.

Thanks <@U016EM8L91B> and <@U01819B63HP>.  I was able to get both magic and xschem installed and running!