Re: Old Libs Question
Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com> wrote:
>I'd like to install the old trusty Netscape 3.04 (that's right!), but
>I couldn't locate a deb for it. Bummer.
There was an installer package called 'netscape3' in potato, but it was
removed in woody (nobody wanted to maintain it any more, basically).
>So I downloaded the tarball from netscape's ftp site. I'm hunting down
>old libraries because it doesn't like the new ones. What I need right
>now is libXpm.so.4. This actaully exists in the Woody version, but is
>too new (I guess). Anyway, an older version is unavailable under
>'oldlibs', so I was wondering how safe it is to install the xpm4.7
>pacakge from Potato?
Hmm, xpm4.7 was the libc5 compatibility library. Are you sure that's the
one you want? (This isn't to say it won't be; I forget whether Netscape
3 was libc5 or libc6 ... if it was libc5, it indeed won't work with the
new xlibs.)
>Or should that be avoided? If so, anyone know where I may find
>compatible libs?
It looks like you should be able to at least install xpm4.7 without
screwing anything up; it installs into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. That seems
like your best bet if Netscape 3 is libc5.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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