Jonathan,
Actually, I had replied to an earlier reply that Richard Adams had
posted to your questions, but since I didnt see it arrive on this mailing
list, I guess it must have gotten lost. So here it is again :
On the Debian CD's there is a section directory called oldlibs.
This contains all the old libraries which certain products (such as
Communicator) need since they have been compiled under such an
environment. You need to install the libraries from that directory. There
is absolutely no reason for you to twiddle LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Also, you would get good support on Debian specific issues on the
debian-user mailing lists.
Regards,
Kenneth
There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
> I have been having several adventures with trying to
> install netscape into Debian 2.1. The first and most
> obvious problem was that a library
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 wasn't being found when
> the system went to load netscape.
> I confirmed that the library was at the above path
> actually it was a link to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10 .
>
> Richard Adams posted:
> >Judging by the error (if thats the only one, then i would say /usr/X11R6/lib
> >is defined in /etc/ld.so.conf and that you have rerun ldconfig.
>
> well it is defined in /etc/ld.so.conf and so I reran ldconfig
> but that didn't solve the problem. It still wouldn't be found.
>
> But then I found that there is an environment variable in bash
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/X11R6/lib:..." which would cause the complaint
> about libXpm.so.4 to go away. Netscape now would attempt to
> load but would promptly seg fault which suggests that David Fox
> might have the right of it:
>
> >Aha. Further evidence that the Netscape in question is libc5-based
> >and not glibc-based. This may not be a problem, as you may have
> >gotten a Netscape that was built against libc5, which (should)
> >still run OK. On the other hand, your output from ldd gives me
> >the feeling that it may be trying to combine both glibc and
> >libc5, which (AFAIK) can't be done.
>
> So now a new list of questions:
> 1. why is there /etc/ld.so.conf as well as the environment variable
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH? And should one be enough and why can't some
> libraries be found just working from ld.so.conf? Is it a
> question of libc5 versus glibc?
>
> 2. I put the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment in my /etc/profile:
>
> # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape"
> MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape
> PS1="\\$ "
> export PATH PS1 MOZILLA_HOME
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/libc5-compat:/lib/libc5-compat:/usr/X11
> R6/lib/Xaw3d"
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> But it apparently is not being picked up with bash starts up. Is there
> some still another switch to make bash read the /etc/profile? To test
> all of this I simply "source /etc/profile". But still it should be being
> picked up at login according to my reading of the bash man pages.
>
> 3. The seg faults I've experienced haven't produced the ever so common
> "core" files. Why not. How do you debug if you don't get a core
> file when something fails?
>
> At this point Debian is being more of a challenge that I had ever
> suspected. I did get 2.0 up but wanted to upgrade to 2.1 so I could
> use cdroast. I'm beginning to think very fondly of RedHat. And my
> wife's asking just how many more months will it take for me to get
> Linux installed :) I'm trying to come up with a decent response which
> is difficult after midnight.
>
> Special thanks to those who posted.
> Jonathan
>
