Re: [Lug-Nuts] Netsacpe won't start

From: Brian Lavender (brian@brie.com)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 16:48:00 PDT


I got Navigator 4.6 version for glibc2 and it works fine now. It says unsupported
on the ftp directory, but it works and Netscape isn't a mission
critical app. I probably should have grabbed the one for glibc2 in
the first place, being that I have libc5 runtime libraries for backward
compatibility.

brian

On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 01:12:05PM -0700, Michael Long wrote:
> run ldconfig -v and make sure that it is looking in there. Other than
> that, it should work...
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Brian Lavender wrote:
>
> > Netscape complains it can't load the libXt.so.6 library when I try to
> > run it.
> >
> > I downloaded Netscape for Linux libc5 and installed it. It seems that
> > the libc5 version is supported while the glibc2 one is not. Since
> > I have libc5 runtime libraries on my system, I figured I would
> > go with the supported.
> >
> > I loaded it on my linux box and I am getting an error with
> > a library. Specifically
> >
> > darkstar:~# /usr/local/netscape/netscape &
> > /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> >
> > I have libXt on my system as shown with locate.
> > $ locate libXt
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
> >
> > I am not sure how to configure my machine to find different
> > libraries. After installing the gtk libraries, I went to configure
> > my system so it could find the new libraries
> >
> > Half sure what it was doing. I edited the entry /usr/local/lib
> > to it
> >
> > brian@darkstar:> cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> > /lib/libc5-compat
> > /usr/local/lib
> >
> > I ran
> >
> > # ldconfig
> >
> > It looks as if the path to the libXt is in the path in the conf file,
> > so I am not sure why Netscape can't load it. Any clues?
> >
> > brian
> > --
> > Brian Lavender
> > http://www.brie.com/brian/
> >

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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/



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