Re: Library Names

[Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Lane Lester <llester@mindspring.com> writes:

> I was =sure= I installed every library I was likely to need, but I
> can't even get nedit to run. It says it's missing libm.so.5 and of
> course, apt-get says there's no such package as libm.

I've found it very helpful to to get the Contents-i386.gz file and
look thru it every now and then.

ftp.somewhere.org/path-to-debian/dists/unstable/Contents-i386.gz

prompt> zgrep libm.so.5 ~root/Debian/Contents-i386.gz
lib/libm.so.5                                   oldlibs/libc5
lib/libm.so.5.0.9                               oldlibs/libc5

I.e. get libc5 in the oldlibs section.

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