Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to
> install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from
> the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during
> the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger
> functioned. The error message was can'tload library libXt.so.6. I used
> locate which had its database from before the change and I found that I
> had that file (and a bunch of other ones) in the /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> directory. The libXt.so.6 file was no longer there.
>
> Well, in my infinate wisdom, :) I just used dselect to remove libc5
> with the thought of reiinstalling it to get the file back. Well, It
> erase several more packages then I bargined for (none to critical). I
> tried to re-install the libc5 stuff and the scripts finished without any
> errors. But the libc5-compat directory is not completely empty!
>
> What package do I need to load to get the libc5 based libraries working
> again? So far, the only casulity I have seen is WP8, but I'll bet I
> will find others as time goes by.
xlib6
xpm4.7
libc5
Bob
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