Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: G Muthukumar Wipro Systems 10964 <muthu@wipsys.soft.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem invoking Mosaic Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961019071519.553F-100000@nike> In-Reply-To: <9610192334.AA08377@kmglmail.wipsys.soft.net>
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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)
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