Re: Netscape & LibXpm

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Gwyn Price wrote:
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> From:                   "Kris Van Hulle" <Kris.Vanhulle@rug.ac.be>
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> > > > I installed Debian yesterday and I can't get Netscape to work:
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> > > > It gives "netscape: can't load LibXpm.4.so" or something like that.
> > > > But when I check "ldconfig -v", the library is really there.
> > > >
> > > > So, what's going on ?
> 
> Hi Kris
> 
> I overcame this problem a few weeks ago.
> 
>     ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape
> 
> will show you the problem IIRC you need to install the libc5
> packages, on the 2.0 cd-rom these can be found in the binary-
> i386/oldlibs directory.
> 
> Gwyn


	Or, you can get the libc6 version from ftp://ftp.netscape.com.  Look
for 'linux20_glibc2' directory.


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Ed C.