From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 14:38:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05EA157AF for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-073.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.73]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA10808; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:38:04 -0600 Message-ID: <38751946.A472220E@journalstar.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:37:58 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape and compat22 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Run /stand/sysinstall and select the post-install configuration/distributions. You should see the compat22 option in there. I think the compat stuff is for backwards compatibility with a.out executables, but I could be wrong. Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'm trying to install netscape47-navigator via ports mechanism. > > It tells me I need to install a.out support via installing > compat22. I searched ports for compat22, found nothing, then > went into sysinstall and found in additional distributions. > > But even after I installed compat22, netscape still complains > about compat22 missing. > > What exactly is compat22 and how can I check if it is indeed > installed? > > Thanks! > > p.s. On a side note, why would I install netscape for linux > insteqad of the native one? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message