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From: Richard Lyon <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>
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To: Charlie Sorsby <crs@hamlet.lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: More questions about mosaic
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On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Charlie Sorsby wrote:

> 
> Is it possible to run mosaic without buying a Motif license?
> 
> Can one, perhaps, obtain a pre-compiled executable?
> 
> I tried using pkg_add while connected with ppp to my ISP.  There is
> a Mosaic present but:
> 
> PC% which Mosaic
> /usr/X11R6/bin/Mosaic
> PC% Mosaic
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libpng.so.0.88"
> PC% 
> 
> I recall seeing a post about some other Motif-dependent code having
> a similar problem because it had been compiled with dynamic rather
> than static libraries (inadvertently) in 2.1.5R.  Is that also the
> case with Mosaic?  What must I do to work around the problem?
> Apparently that was possible with the other program but I'd already
> passed the article when I realized that the problem may be similar
> and now I can't find it.
> 

I don't think libpng.so.x.xxx is part of motif. All the motif libraries 
on my machine are dynamic and I can't find this library.

There is a precompiled version of netscape available for intel bsd that 
runs very well. The nescape browser is definitely better than mosaic.

Regards Richard ...