On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 02:09:20AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > What's the purpose of these files? And is the older version of glibc > (version 2.0, right?) synonymous with libc5, and the newer version of glibc > (2.2?) synonymous with libc6?
2.0 == libc5, 2.1 == glibc , 2.2 == ¿ > I'm a little confused because I thought my system was pretty up-to-date, but > when I tried to remove libc5, dselect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is > a relatively new program. Yes, but Netscape is built against the older C library. That's why you need it. Mozilla is built against the new C library, but it's not fully functional yet :-( -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
