Re: X, netscape
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote:
Hi,
All I can say to you is to calm down and download the glibc2 version of
netscape then you won't get those library problms.
By the way Debian is a very good distribution. But it's a little bit hard
to get started with it. Don't worry it is extremely stable. I have been
running it for five months and not one crash!
Good luck
Robert
> now i am getting very, very annoyed. with all the talk about how stable
> etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid. first with
> the default everything on X etc. mozilla comes up with errors (actually
> they are X errors, like "error invalid ButtonX call" etc. you get the
> idea). on mozilla also i can not hit enter in the location box to goto
> a page, i must do file:open. so then i use dselect to get a newer
> version of navigator to see if it'll solve the problems i find out i
> have to d/l the archive i do that ( i d/led ver. 4.51) and installed it
> etc. only to get an error about missing libraries when netscape starts
> up.... i've had library errors on the other distro's so this was one
> reason i wanted to try debian. from expierence i know that ldconfig
> sometimes works although i have no idea why (it worked on SuSE one time
> when i upgraded GTK). is this a normal thing on slink (an official
> CD-ROM ordered from cheapbytes)? will upgrading X help? man how do i
> fix these errors? man without netscape linux really is useless for a
> home user
>
>
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Robert Horvath Technical University of Budapest
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