On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Hmmm. I'm a bit confused.  I thought RH 6.0 and above including Mandrake
> was  glibc2..  Can you explain this?
> 
Mandrake & RedHat are glibc2. However, due to a problem of a newer
glibc than RedHat (from a message you may already have read) there
may be problems with the glibc2 version of Netscape.
>
> I've tried plugger a few times and it installed, but
> everytime a web "event" called something
> to utilize plugger CRASH!... Maybe this is indeed my answer, since I
> dloaded glibc2.
>
Yep. Most likely.
> 
> This is damn confusing.  How do you tell?  How do you know?
>
First, rpm -e plugger and then download and install the libc5 version
and try it. Plugger's website has a test link on their system.
>
> Ever since the last attempt at plugger in which I had
> to edit a number of things in Netscape
> just to get RID of it!!!
> 
Would've been easier to remove it using RPM. :-)
>
> I find this interesting since all my local linux buddies say GLIBC2!!!
> 
> If anyone can explain this and tell me how to figure out what I need I
> would appreciate it!!
> 
As I said, download and install the libc5 version and try it. :-)
        John

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