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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com>
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.61 (Linux) broken since adding linux_base-5.2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910112036490.6347-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19991011232409.B3243@marder-1>

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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.  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.  

Do an "ls /var/db/pkg".  Do you have multiple versions of linux-base
installed?  If so, pkg_delete them both, and reinstall (you probably
overwrote things when installing and now have a mix-mash of stuff.

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

Brett
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