Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink
Thanks Bob!
That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded
the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again.
Thanks again for your help!
Doug
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> 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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