From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 10:20:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8136537B401 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC24F43E4A for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Aaron.Siegel@attbi.com) Received: from 12-252-15-126.client.attbi.com ([12.252.15.126]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021027182056.OLZZ27756.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@12-252-15-126.client.attbi.com>; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:20:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Help! WordPerfect can't find /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1 ! From: Aaron Siegel To: "G.E. Rafe" , FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <200210271726.MAA03170@strange.eng.utoledo.edu> References: <200210271726.MAA03170@strange.eng.utoledo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 27 Oct 2002 11:22:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1035742923.800.16.camel@freedom.rutster> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello I was able to get older linux binaries to work by install the following rpms from the Red Hat 6.1 distribution: ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm I did this by: # /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash # rpm -ivh ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm Then you will need to add the library to the /usr/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf file here are the directories listed in my file: /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib I do not know if this is the best method of getting the old libraries to work. It works for me, both Matlab R11 and WordPerfect 8 are working on my computer. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:26, G.E. Rafe wrote: > We upgraded our Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 from 4.6-R to 4.7-R yesterday > to try to take advantage of some work on USB devices > (specifically, ucom & uvisor for our Palm m130). > That bit still isn't working, but another, more troubling problem > has arisen. > > Our WordPerfect 8 for Linux installation > (which worked perfectly under 4.6-R w/linux_base-6.1) > now complains when asked to start: > > ELF interpreter /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1 not found > Abort > > Of course, linux_base-7.1_1 doesn't reference ld-linux.so.1, > so what's up with that ?! > > And the 4.7-R distribution come with linux_base-6, > so "going back" isn't an immediate option. > > I find the same behavior with the Acrobat 3 reader. > > I won't mind terribly ditching Acrobat 3 for its successors, > but we use WordPerfect often enough for this to be a problem. > > Suggestions, pointers will be appreciated ! > -- > Gary E. RAFE, PhD > grafe@eng.utoledo.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message