RE: netscape
That is the libc6 version, it is sometimes called glib (GNU_lib).
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ed C.
> >
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