From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 17:43:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984CC14E42 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06469; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:42:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:42:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Mark Ovens Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Wills, Ken" Subject: Re: Netscape 4.61 (Linux) broken since adding linux_base-5.2 In-Reply-To: <19991011232409.B3243@marder-1> 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 Hi, On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > Arrgh! I've just had a bad thought. Did I really need to install > linux_base at all? My system was originally built clean (i.e. not > installed over a previous version of FreeBSD) from the 3.1 CDs. I > included Linux support/emulation when I installed. > > Gimp, acroread, WP, Netscape all worked fine, now none of them work. So apparently you already had linux-base installed when you did the fresh install. Gimp is native anyway unless you were using a Linux binary for some strange reason. Acroread and WP are Linux binaries only. > Did I need to install linux_base to make Star Office work? If you already had WP and acroread working then no - it was already installed. Do an "ls /var/db/pkg". Do you have multiple versions of linux-base installed? If so, pkg_delete them both, and reinstall (you probably overwrote things when installing and now have a mix-mash of stuff. You also need to get rid of the links you made before - even if gdb says it's /usr/lib, the linux compatibility layer automatically feeds it to /compat/linux/lib Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message