Re: Stupid Netscape question
Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Tim Heuser wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be missing libxpm.so.4 or so my system tells me when I try to run
> > netscape. While in Linux I can't download it from anywhere! Suposedly
> > there is a ver. ...so.4.8, never saw it, but I did find a few places with
> > 4.7, but I couldn't figure out a way to download it. None of the ftp
> > programs seem to work at the places that have it. (Lynx dosn't work, and the
> > other browser (I forgot the name of it) dosn't seem capable of downloading
> > files. Where can I get this library?
> >
> > I guess I'll need to get it with windows, mount the win drive and move it to
> > linux. This is what I did with my 1st install of netscape and maybe why it
> > wouldn't work?
>
> If you are using the libc5 based NS, then you need the 'xpm4.7'
> lib in the 'oldlibs' section of dselect's display. Either that or
> get the libc6 verison of NS thats on ftp.netscape.com. Go under
> the 'unsupported' directory branch. See my response to "Re:
> netscape library dependencies?".
>
I thought I did. Figures. Ill go looking again. The one I got was
communicator-v45-export_ppc-unknown-linux... uh oh. I just remembered the number was
a 1 something at this point and it should have been a 2! I think I found this part of
the problem. thanks.
Tim
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