From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 6 07:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA28153 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA28144 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA10898; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:20:04 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:20 EDT Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.dignus.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26103; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id IAA08397; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:43:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:43:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199708061243.IAA08397@lakes.dignus.com> To: ponds!iquest.net!jerryk, ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!questions Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 woes Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > After waiting for another Communicator release to run in non-Linux > emulation under FreeBSD one has been released - 4.02b7. Unfortunately, > the install didn't complete smoothly as it could not set up the > Netscape registry info and when I tried to start Communicator, it fails. > > It turns out that both the installation failure and the inability of > Communicator to start up are due to the fact that I'm missing some > libraries: libc.so.3.0 and libg++.so.4.0 to be exact. > > Has anyone else experienced these problems? I was able to run 4.01b6 > fine until it expired. Any clues as to where I can get the libraries? Your problem is likely the version of FreeBSD you're running... it wouldn't be pre-2.2.1 would it? I'm running a 2.2.1 variant; the ns-install worked fine; and except for some older X11 library problems (which don't seem to do more than cause some messages); things work great! - Dave Rivers -