From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 18:28:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56FDA152CD for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 9172 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1999 01:28:39 -0000 Received: from useraj01.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.133.130) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 1999 01:28:39 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id CAA00510; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:28:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:28:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Taylor Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Wills, Ken" Subject: Re: Netscape 4.61 (Linux) broken since adding linux_base-5.2 Message-ID: <19991012022821.B317@marder-1> References: <19991011232409.B3243@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:42:13PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Arrgh! I've just had a bad thought. Did I really need to install > > linux_base at all? My system was originally built clean (i.e. not > > installed over a previous version of FreeBSD) from the 3.1 CDs. I > > included Linux support/emulation when I installed. > > > > Gimp, acroread, WP, Netscape all worked fine, now none of them work. > > So apparently you already had linux-base installed when you did the fresh > install. Gimp is native anyway unless you were using a Linux binary for > some strange reason. So it is. For some reason it started it's install program when I run it as root, but not as a normal user. Hmm, sure I've run it as root before. Maybe it's to do with having just u/g Xfree to 3.3.5. Anyway, that's something else for me to sort, don;t worry about it. > Acroread and WP are Linux binaries only. > > > Did I need to install linux_base to make Star Office work? > > If you already had WP and acroread working then no - it was already > installed. > Damn. > Do an "ls /var/db/pkg". Do you have multiple versions of linux-base > installed? No. I actually checked this before installing it. I do however have linux_libs-2.6 that was there before. Could this be like XFree86, when you install it as part of the FreeBSD install then no entry is made in /var/db/pkg? > If so, pkg_delete them both, and reinstall (you probably > overwrote things when installing and now have a mix-mash of stuff. > Well I'll ``make deinstall'' the one I've got and try re-installing it. > You also need to get rid of the links you made before - even if gdb says > it's /usr/lib, the linux compatibility layer automatically feeds it > to /compat/linux/lib > Done. Thanks for the help. The author of the instruction doc asked for feedback; guess I'll suggest he adds "..if Linux emulation isn't already installed.." to the instruction to install linux_base. > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message