From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 13:59:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CC2844D0 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8920 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2000 21:58:39 -0000 Received: from useraj30.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.133.159) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2000 21:58:39 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00997; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:52:31 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:52:31 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using Acrobat4 plugin with Linux Netscape Message-ID: <20000210215230.B935@marder-1> References: <200002102011.PAA11591@dufus.video-collage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002102011.PAA11591@dufus.video-collage.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:11:16PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I've installed the Linux version of Netscape on this 4.0 machine to be > able to use linux plugins. The first one I tried is Acroread4 -- I made > the symlink > nppdf.so -> ../../../Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so > > in /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/plugins . Now Netscape complains: > > ERROR: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/plugins/nppdf.so. Ignored. > > The linux_base port is installed and happy (the Communicator itself > runs). The libc.so.5 is there: > > /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5: symbolic link to libc.so.5.3.12 > > what am I missing? Adding ``/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/'' to the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes Netscape to die at startup with bus error. > Thanks! > Try removing LD_LIBRARY_PATH completely. Several of us found it broke Linux apps (core dumps on start up) after installing linux_base (to get Staroffice working). I'm running Netscape Communicator 4.61 for Linux and the Acroread-4 plug-in works fine (now I've deleted LD_LIBRARY_PATH). HTH > -mi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message