Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:25:14 -0500 From: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@panix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3? Message-ID: <200401011125.14464.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401011027270.26050@panix1.panix.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401011027270.26050@panix1.panix.com>
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I think that's the wrong verfsion of linux-netscape, you probably need: communicator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz or navigator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz both can be installed via the ports at /usr/ports/www/netscape48-communicator or /usr/ports/www/netscape48-navigator (if you have ports collection installed) Note that the ports are supposed to work with the latest releases of the OS (currently 4.9 and 5.1); you may need to upgrade your OS to 4.9 to get any ports to run. FreeBSD 5.1 is still a development release; if you upgrade stick to the FreeBSD 4.9 path. HTH Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Thursday 01 January 2004 10:38 am, Ken Seggerman wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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