Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH
Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> > Tres Hofmeister wrote:
> > >
> > > On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > > :
> > > : Craig R. Hodges wrote:
> > > : >
> > > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink.
> > > : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error:
> > > : >
> > > : > netscape: locale `C' not supported.
> > > :
> > > : The problem is a broken X package(s). There is probably a better
> > > : solution, but I used an older xbase, the one that is about 2 meg in
> > > : size (not the newer one in slink) and extracted (*not* by installing)
> > > : just the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale directory. This ended the problems
> > > : with NS.
> > >
> > > Hmm, all I had to do on my slink system was:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/lib/X11
> > > ln -s locale.xlib6-old locale
> > >
> > > In fact, a diff -r showed the "old" locale directory from a
> > > Debian 2.0 system to be identical to the new locale.xlib6-old directory.
> > > Thus the link.
> > >
> > > Just setting the XNLSPATH environment variable to the old
> > > directory didn't work, for some reason.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, someone else mentioned 'locale.xlib6-old'. Unfortunately, for
> > whatever reason, I did *not* have this dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> > (because of symlinks, this is the same as /usr/lib/X11). In fact I ran a
> > search for the files in the locale subdir, and didn't find them anywhere
> > on my system. My system began as Debian 2.0 (install) and is updated
> > against slink regularly.
> >
>
> On my system the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ somehow managed to become a
> symbolic link to itself (I think or maybe it was just a circular series
> of symbolic links). Which lead to the error message saying that the
> level of symbolic links was too deep. I fixed the problem by removing
> the nasty symbolic link /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ and then reinstalled
> xlib6g to get the proper files in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/.
Because of this and another problem (missing files at ftp.debian.org
causing dselect/dpkg to choke), I've had all the X stuff on 'hold' in
dselect. I'll check out the latest xlib6g as soon as I'm done taking
care of my mail.
--
Ed C.
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