Re: cannot find libXpm.so.4 when running netscape

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

Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> 
> On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:05:46 +1000 (EST) Shao Ying Zhang writes:
> >
> > Hi debies,
> >       I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb
> > package at all.
> >
> >       Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so
> > what pkg do I need??
> 
> The needed packages are (for a libc5 based netscape) in the oldlibs
> directory of debian.  The package name is xpm4.7:
> 
>   Package: xpm4.7
>   Status: install ok installed
>   Priority: optional
>   Section: oldlibs
>   Installed-Size: 64
>   Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
>   Source: xpm
>   Version: 3.4j-0.6
>   Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
>   Conflicts: xpm4, xpm4.7-dev, xpm4-dev
>   Description: X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - runtime
>    XPM (X PixMap) is a format for storing and retrieving pixmaps to
>    and from files.  This package includes a runtime library for
>    including, storing, reading and writing the XPM format.
> 
>         Torsten
> 


	Or if you prefer, you can get a libc6 based version of Netscape from
ftp.netscape.com.  This would eliminate the need to keep the old libs on
your system.


-- 
Ed C.