On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 12:13:19PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems using some software downloaded from the net (netscape, > StarOffice etc etc).
Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. > I'll use the setup for StarOffice as an example of the problem. But > neither netscape, nor acrobat work either, and crash with similar > problems. You don't have all the libc5 libraries these programs require installed. Using the installer packages would have taken care of that. > It seems that libc6 is not required, it has libc5 (latest and last > version), so why does ldd report a requirement for libc6 ? Because ldd shows you what libraries a binary will be loaded against. In this case, the binary depends on the libc5 version of a particular library, which isn't available; therefore, the dynamic loader will load it against the libc6 version, causing havoc. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan