From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 19 07:20:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23058 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23050 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19214; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: G Muthukumar Wipro Systems 10964 cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem invoking Mosaic In-Reply-To: <9610192334.AA08377@kmglmail.wipsys.soft.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, G Muthukumar Wipro Systems 10964 wrote: > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5. I tried installing Mosaic on my > machine. The installation was completed without any problems. But when I > tried invoking Mosaic, I get the following error message: > > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libz.so.2.0" this is because you are using the package-current version and not the package-2.1.5 version... in current libz has been imported into the tree and do to some makefiles the major/minor version has changed.... > and it fails. I tried installing the precompiled package also. Still I am > getting the same error message. (I installed the required ports for Mosaic > already). use ports-2.1.5 and not ports-current... ports-current is only (hopefully) known to work on current systems... > Since I am a starter, I don't know what to do. Please help. hope this helps... > Thanks in advance, np... > PS: > > I am using ctwm. Is this a problem, since in the Makefile I see a > line like this? > > REQUIRES_MOTIF=yes > > If this is a problem, can I make Mosaic work with ctwm? this won't work... to compile Mosaic you will have to buy/own a copy of Motif or get an equivallent free version that is robust enough... hope this helps... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)