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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 1997 05:07:59 -0400
From:      Jack <harpo@javanet.com>
To:        potok@free.polbox.pl
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't find libc.so.3.0
Message-ID:  <33B4D449.41C67EA6@javanet.com>
References:  <199706280912.LAA00610@sliphost37.uni-trier.de>

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Sascha Blank wrote:
> 
> Hello Mariusz,
> 
> Mariusz Potocki has written recently:
> > I recently installed XFree 3.2, but after unpacking: bin, doc, fnts,
> > lib, man, set, cfg, VG16 from .tgz files and performed preinstal.sh
> > and postinstal.sh i can not launch X (startx) because of message:
> > Can't find libc.so.3.0.
> > Where I can find it and where place it?
> > (I'm using 2.1.5 release and XFree 3.12 works just fine).
> 
> it looks like you have downloaded an XFree 3.2 version which was built
> to run on a FreeBSD 2.2 system, which uses libc.so.3.0. In order to run
> XFree 3.2 on your 2.1.5 system you must download a version that has been
> built for the 2.1.x branch instead. This version will then use
> libc.so.2.2 instead.
> 
> --
>              Sascha Blank - mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de
>   Student and System Administrator at the University of Trier, Germany
>             Finger my account to receive my Public PGP key
>    I don't speak for my employers, they don't pay me enough for that.
Or, if you want to play with fire, you can just make a link to
libc.so.2.0 (or whatever you have. (/usr/lib? I'm not sure)
Anyways, I've done that for a couple programs, and no problems here
(FBSD 2.1.5)



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