Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:38:10 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401011027270.26050@panix1.panix.com>
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I am running FreeBSD 4.3 running on an old slow laptop which is running low on disk space. I had Mozilla 5.0 0.8.1 and Netscape-communicator 4.76 installed. Netscape was a package off of the FreeBSD 4.3 CDROM. I may have downloaded Mozilla and installed it as a package, or built it as a port. I don't remember. Up until quite recently Mozilla worked very slowly, took up a lot of space on the hard drive and 97% of the CPU. I don't think Netscape worked once I installed Mozilla, but trying to start Netscape resulted in the following error messages: $ /usr/local/bin/netscape /usr/libexec/ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: minor version -1 older than expected 0, using it anyway ld.so failed: bad magic number in "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6" I did pkg_delete on Netscape and reinstalled it with pkg_add from the CDROM. When I tried to start Netscape, I got the same bad magic number error. Then when I tried to start Mozilla, the hard drive rattled for about five minutes, Mozilla started up, got a PID, used up 95% of the CPU, but it never (I've waited 15 minutes) opened a window. Perhaps my pkg_delete and pkg_add of Netscape stepped on something in Mozilla. I pkg_deleted mozilla, netscape-communicator, netscape-wrapper, and netscpae-remote. I went to the FreeBSD web site where they said that the FreeBSD version of Mozilla is huge and slow, and recommended Netscape instead. The latest version of Netscape for download is Linux version called: netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz. My laptop is set for running Linux executables: #linux linux driver already loaded but I have no idea what to do with this file. Do I untar and unzip it first and hope that any installation instructions will work on FreeBSD? Leave it as a tar.gz, and install it with pkg_add, or rpm? The FreeBSD Handbook goes into great detail about how to brand elf binaries, how to install specific software like Mathematica and Oracle, but doesn't say how to install an ordinary Linux binary or how to install Netscape. I would be grateful for any suggestions. Ken
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