Re: [Lug-Nuts] Netsacpe won't start

From: Michael Long (mlong@ns.net)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 13:12:05 PDT


run ldconfig -v and make sure that it is looking in there. Other than
that, it should work...

Mike

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Brian Lavender wrote:

> Netscape complains it can't load the libXt.so.6 library when I try to
> run it.
>
> I downloaded Netscape for Linux libc5 and installed it. It seems that
> the libc5 version is supported while the glibc2 one is not. Since
> I have libc5 runtime libraries on my system, I figured I would
> go with the supported.
>
> I loaded it on my linux box and I am getting an error with
> a library. Specifically
>
> darkstar:~# /usr/local/netscape/netscape &
> /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
>
> I have libXt on my system as shown with locate.
> $ locate libXt
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
>
> I am not sure how to configure my machine to find different
> libraries. After installing the gtk libraries, I went to configure
> my system so it could find the new libraries
>
> Half sure what it was doing. I edited the entry /usr/local/lib
> to it
>
> brian@darkstar:> cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /lib/libc5-compat
> /usr/local/lib
>
> I ran
>
> # ldconfig
>
> It looks as if the path to the libXt is in the path in the conf file,
> so I am not sure why Netscape can't load it. Any clues?
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>



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