From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 14:53:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05230 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05221 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA14097 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609112153.OAA14097@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: Re: upgrading libraries To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960911203457.009c7fb0@osiris.hmc.edu> from "Sage Weil" at Sep 11, 96 01:34:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello, > > I'm currently running FreeBSD-2.1, and would like to use a number of the > newer packages in the 2.1.5 and current hierarchies. However, they require > things like libXaw 6.1 and libXext 6.1, where 2.1 is distributed with 6.0. > > 1) Is it possible ot just get these libraries without upgrading the OS to > 2.1.5? The upgrade section in the README for 2.1.5 didn't make a full > upgrade sound like it was very much fun.. > > 2) Is there somewhere where other libararies from the new OS can be found, > and will they work as well? (e.g. libc 3.0, etc.) > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > sage > > __ > | /\_\ sage weil sage@mind.net | > | \/_/ webring manager http://www.webring.org | > | finger for PGP key http://www.mind.net/sage | > > These are X libs. You need to get an XFree86 version that uses X11 6.1. You can try to just ln the old libs to the new names and see what happens. Or you can get the latest beta, which is 3.1.2G. Try www.xfree86.org for more information. And yes, you can use them on 2.1R, I am. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088