Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5
On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 08:50:29 -0500, you wrote:
>Robert Lyonnais <rjlyonnais@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I
>> figured it was time to try something new :-).
>
>> To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When
>> attempting to start this beast, I now receive the error "can't load
>> library libXpm.so.4". Strange part is this file is located in
>> "/usr/X11R6/lib" and that path is in my "/etc/ld.so.conf" file.
>
>> Just for kicks, I did an "ldd" on netscape and I got this back;
>
>> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40128000)
>
>You are tunning a libc5 version of netscape. The libXpm in
>/usr/X11R6/lib will be libc6 so it is not useful to this version of
>netscape. You need to either install the glibc2 version of netscape
>or (simpler) install the libc5 version of libXpm with dselect. xpm4g
>is the libc6 version which gives you the library in /usr/X11R6/lib.
>xpm4-7 (in the dists/stable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs directory) is the
>libc5 version and will work with this version of netscape.
>
>Erv
Thanks very much. That did the trick.
Cheers,
Robert
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