From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 4: 3: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5441522D for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA29611; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:31:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:31:50 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dieter Rothacker Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old Libs...? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dieter Rothacker wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed 4.0-SNAP-19991203. I noticed that some packages (e.g. > samba, bash2) complain about missing shared libs (e.g. libreadline.so.3 > needed and .4 is installed). Reading similar things in the mailing list > archive, I assume that I have to install the old libs from a 3.3-stable BIN. > Correct? > > How do I find out which bin-archives I really need to download? I looked at > the mtree-file, but did not find the exact arc files mentioned. I do not > want to download all bin.* files. > > Please forgive me if the solution should be obvious, it is my first try at > FreeBSD. It's ok, you really ought to try 3.3-stable, all the packages should work fine with it. 4.0 is the developer/early-adopter version, not fun for newbies. 3.x is the 'stable' version, and much easier on people new to FreeBSD. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message