From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 5: 8:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D4D14E87 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:08:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA14901; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:08:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA01216; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:08:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id IAA05286; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:08:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:08:08 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199903081308.IAA05286@lakes.dignus.com> To: charon@freethought.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port of linux libs In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990307222433.00a3ae70@mail> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm using 3.1-RELEASE and trying to install linux_lib-2.6.1 by way of port, > but the port directory looks for linux_lib-2.6 and won't accept the > slightly newer version. Is there any way (short of upgrading to -STABLE) > of getting this to work? Thanks, > > In the past; I've been able to upgrade the linux libraries simply by finding a linux machine and copying them over. And, I've done this before as well - ftp to redhat.com and grab the libraries from their distribution. All you likely need to do is place them in the correct location on your FreeBSD box. However, once, there were some changes needed to linux emulation to using newer linux libraries... although, I don't believe that's the case for this small increment... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message