Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:28:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com> Subject: Re: Netscape 4.61 (Linux) broken since adding linux_base-5.2 Message-ID: <19991012022821.B317@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910112036490.6347-100000@peloton.runet.edu> References: <19991011232409.B3243@marder-1> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910112036490.6347-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:42:13PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote:
> 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.
So it is. For some reason it started it's install program when I
run it as root, but not as a normal user. Hmm, sure I've run it as
root before. Maybe it's to do with having just u/g Xfree to 3.3.5.
Anyway, that's something else for me to sort, don;t worry about
it.
> 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.
>
Damn.
> Do an "ls /var/db/pkg". Do you have multiple versions of linux-base
> installed?
No. I actually checked this before installing it. I do however have
linux_libs-2.6 that was there before. Could this be like XFree86,
when you install it as part of the FreeBSD install then no entry
is made in /var/db/pkg?
> If so, pkg_delete them both, and reinstall (you probably
> overwrote things when installing and now have a mix-mash of stuff.
>
Well I'll ``make deinstall'' the one I've got and try re-installing
it.
> 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
>
Done.
Thanks for the help. The author of the instruction doc asked for
feedback; guess I'll suggest he adds "..if Linux emulation isn't
already installed.." to the instruction to install linux_base.
> Brett
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