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Re: can't start netscape



>Richard Sevenich wrote:
>>
>> I just installed Hamm and am using kde as the desktop environment.
Attempting
>> to start netscape yields error message:
>>         can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
>> The netscape version is one I used earlier under bo (netscape 4.05).
>> The library in the error message exists.
>> Any advice/hints?
>> TIA
>> Richard
>>
>
>
>    The library does exist, but its the wrong *version*.  When you
upgraded to
>hamm you upgraded libc from 5 to 6 (glibc2).  All the X stuff is also
linked
>to the new library.  Unfortunately, the Netscape your using is still
>expecting libc5 stuff.  I got this same error, and solved it by going to
>netscape.com and downloading the glibc2 version of Netscape 4.05.  The
>version I downloaded is in a 'development' subdirectory (under the linux
>directory tree) and is named:
>
>    communicator-v405-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0_glibc2.tar.gz
>
Awhile ago I was running redhat 5.0 (also glibc2).  I downloaded the
communicator RPM package and it worked fine.  So the redhat specific
version of netscape may work if installed as alien.



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