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Re: netscape problem ...



On Sun, 17 May 1998, The CampGround wrote:

> 
> I recently (about an hour ago) downloaded netscape 4.05 from netscape, ran
> the ns-install script, and it threw the files in /usr/local/netscape.. I
> run /usr/local/netscape/netscape &  inside an xterm and i get:
> netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> Now, I reran ldconfig, tried it again, got the same thing. So I ran
> ldconfig /usr/X11R6/lib and tried it again, same thing. So I checked
> /usr/X11R6/lib, and sure enough it's there. So I decide to do an: ldd
> /usr/local/netscape/netscape and it returns this:
>         libXt.so.6 => not found
>         libSM.so.6 => not found
>         libICE.so.6 => not found
>         libXmu.so.6 => not found
>         libXpm.so.4 => not found
>         libXext.so.6 => not found
>         libX11.so.6 => not found
>         libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000a000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000d000)
>         libg++.so.27 => not found
>         libstdc++.so.27 => not found
>         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400cb000)
> I have all those libs that ldd claims are "not found", but it still
> refuses to run. I am running the latest version of xfree that was on
> debian.org. I have checked the links and they all check out to the proper
> libs, but still get this. There is not one broken link.
> 
> If anybody has any ideas whatsoever, please let me know.

You need to install the xlib6 package (as opposed to the xlib6g package).
It is also recomended that you get the netscape4 package, which is an
installer package for netscape and will patch it slightly for use on your
Debian system.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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