RE: netscape
The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2
version under:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/
I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the
wrong place?
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ed@mary.xtn.net [mailto:ed@mary.xtn.net]On Behalf Of Ed Cogburn
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:07 PM
> To: Debian-Users
> Subject: Re: netscape
>
>
> Brian Morgan wrote:
> >
> > I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
> > When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site -
> v4.5), I get
> > the following error:
> > "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'"
> > How can I fix this?
> > I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding libXpm.so.4
> using dselect in
> > the frozen dist. No luck.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian Morgan
> >
>
>
> What you've downloaded is the libc5 version of Netscape, but
> you're system is using libc6. Netscape requires some of the X
> libs to, themselves, be compiled under libc5 for NS to work. So,
> there are libc5-built libs in the oldlibs section in dselect.
> Specifically: libc5, xlib6 and Xpm.
> A better solution is to get the libc6 version of NS from
> ftp.netscape.com. This won't require any older libs to be
> installed. On ftp.netscape.com, look for the 'development' tree
> (instead of 'shipping') for the libc6 versions.
>
>
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> Ed C.
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