On Fri, 7 May 1999 13:20:06 -0400, Ray Olszewski wrote:

>How odd. 
>
>The info command is in Slackware package texinfo, which is part of
>Zipslack.  But libz.so.1 is part of package libgr, which is not
>included in Zipslack.  You might want to try adding it (from
>slakware/xap1 on the CD).

OK.  I downloaded Zipslack (January 1999) but do plan to get a CD
distribution.

>But my version of info (on Slackware 3.5) doesn't list libz among its
>dependencies ("ldd /usr/bin/info"). 

darkstar:/usr/bin# ldd info
        libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40009000)
        libz.so.1 => not found
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4004a000)

>Are you sure you're reading the error correctly?

Yep, I just rechecked it. :)

>Are you using info from the command line,

Yes.

>or have you installed X (also not part of Zipslack)?

No, I haven't got around to X yet.

>Does "which info" return "/usr/bin/info"?

Yes.

>These questions are really just fishing, as I'm having difficulty
>understanding how the problem occurs.

Me too.  Thanks for going fishing!  :)

Kurt Kehler

>At 03:59 AM 5/7/99 -0400, Kurt Kehler wrote:
>>I'm using Zipslack and when I try to use the info command I get:
>>
>>info: can't load library 'libz.so.1'



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