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Date:      Fri, 4 May 2001 11:09:28 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        James Egan <jegan@jegan.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running old freebsd program
Message-ID:  <20010504110928.A7459@billygoat.slb.to>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20010504152249.00a57270@localhost>; from jegan@jegan.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:35:48PM %2B0100
References:  <5.1.0.14.1.20010504152249.00a57270@localhost>

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> I've just installed FreeBSD 4.1 with the main aim of running an old
> FreeBSD program but I can't get it to run.
> 
> I get the error message :-
> 
> Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so.
> 
> which isn't surprising because this file isn't there. The closest is
> ld-elf.so.1
> 
> I looked at the manpages for elf but didn't understand much.
> 
> What do I need to do to run old binaries like this ? (I think it was
> 2.2.1 at the time it was written). The source isn't available.

Use /stand/sysinstall to install the compat22 package(s).

Lucas

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