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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:49:35 -0800
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        service@fixer.com
Subject:   Re: can't find "libc.so.6"
Message-ID:  <200512071949.37929.ringworm01@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <001401c5fba9$809943e0$0720be43@hsd1.co.comcast.net>
References:  <001401c5fba9$809943e0$0720be43@hsd1.co.comcast.net>

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On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:43, service@fixer.com wrote:
> umame -a ----  FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31
> 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIL    i386
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------
>
> I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer.  I am trying to
> install wput-.0.5 (the package).  It requires libgnugotop-1.2.   I
> installed libgnugotop and wput.   This may not be required, but some
> programs do not work unless you shutdown and restart the computer.
>
> Every time I try to run wput, I get a message that says "shared object   --
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1      libc.so.6  not found".  I find some of these libc
> programs on Google.com.  Right now, after trying to find libc.so.6, I think
> I'm "googled out".
>
> I need to know where I can find "libc.so.6".  Hopefully, someone can help.
>
> greg
> webmasters@fixer.com

Sounds like the package was  for freebsd ver 6. Run env and
see what PACKAGESITE is set to, here is one from a 5.4 Stable system:

PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/

-Mike



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