Re: Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution)
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:04:32AM -0200, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote:
> From: "Simon Read" <simon@formasic.com>
> > The current version of Mozilla crashes for me on a number of web-site
> > (tv.yahoo.com, www.mywashingtonpost.com, &c), so I wanted to try the
> > Netscape 7.0 version. I hit a couple of roadblocks and want to post
> > so bemused people like me can manage to do this.
> >
> > The installer complains "error while loading shared libraries:
> > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". This shared library is old, and is
> > available in the package "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" which you can install
> > with dselect.
>
> I solved this problem creating a sim link.
>
> ln -s libst....... so.2 libst....... so.3
>
> this works fine.
That is generally speaking a bad idea, certainly worse than Simon's
correct solution.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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