RE: More legacy/proprietry app headaches.
I made it work by using libc5, xpm and xlib from the bo distribution (I'm using potato) see:
ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive
Use alien to convert them to .tgz, and put them into their own directory, e.g. /usr/local/oldlibs. They take up about 2.5MB. You'll need to resymlink libxmu and libice. Then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use those libraries:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/oldlibs/lib:/usr/local/oldlibs/usr/X11R6/lib ./nscal
Using libc5 and xpm4 in potato would segfault for me, but using the older versions works for nscal 6.1
> Hi all,
>
> New problem with not only a proprietry app, but a old one.
>
> Netscape calendar client doiesn't want to play with Debian. Even worse
> this is a product that Netscape has dropped which means a big fat zero
> support wise. I can assure anyone who tries to help that it can run under
> redhat and mandrake.
>
> I have installed all the stuff for libc5.
>
> nscal just reports, can not load libXpm.so.4. doing and ldd ./nscal tells
> me it can not find that lib. a ldconfig -v | grep Xpm tells me the library
> is alive and well.
>
> Is anyone running this program on Debian. This is the second time I have
> had issues running an app under Debian that worked on other distro's. I
> really want to stick with the swirl as it kicks it for most stuff, but
> seems to be having some issues with netscape apps.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Stewart
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