The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 version under: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Cogburn > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:07 PM > To: Debian-Users > Subject: Re: netscape > > > Brian Morgan wrote: > > > > I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it. > > When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - > v4.5), I get > > the following error: > > "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" > > How can I fix this? > > I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding libXpm.so.4 > using dselect in > > the frozen dist. No luck. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Morgan > > > > > What you've downloaded is the libc5 version of Netscape, but > you're system is using libc6. Netscape requires some of the X > libs to, themselves, be compiled under libc5 for NS to work. So, > there are libc5-built libs in the oldlibs section in dselect. > Specifically: libc5, xlib6 and Xpm. > A better solution is to get the libc6 version of NS from > ftp.netscape.com. This won't require any older libs to be > installed. On ftp.netscape.com, look for the 'development' tree > (instead of 'shipping') for the libc6 versions. > > > -- > Ed C. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
