> Hi, > I have followed the netscape installation instructions (generic linux) > and all is unpacked and the install script completes OK. But netscape > will not run. It is missing the libraries libg++.so.27 and > libstdc++.so.27. These are present on my Debian system (2.0) in > usr/lib/libc5-compat.
> Therefore, I assumed that netscape is libc5 only, and redirected library > loads to /usr/lib/libc5-compat (using LD_LIBRARY_PATH). This found the > libc5 versions of most libraries, and the libg++.so.27 and > libstdc++.so.27 that are ONLY in the libc5 directory. But this showed > that a library libXpm.so.4 was not found. This appears to be only in the > libc6 set (/usr/X11R6/lib). All this tracked using 'ldd netscape'. > This is very confusing. Is netscape libc5 or libc6? > If netscape is libc5, then is there a libc5 version of libXpm.so.4 > somewhere? > Am I totally off the track here? The netscape they officially support is libc5. Though you'll easily find a libc6-based one on their ftp site. I'd say go for glibc version. (Yeah, I know, another 16 megs... I did the same mistake myself anyway. ;)
