John,
Thank you very much! I now have Netscape 3.04 working (at least as root
-- I have some more experimentation to do (for example, to see what
happens if I share a mail directory with Windows -- will the line ending
problem bite me?) but I appreciate the help to get over this hurdle).
For reference, I downloaded ld.so-1.9.5-8.i386.rpm from rpmfind.net
which was listed as being for Redhat 5.2. (There were no packages
listed for Mandrake, and this seemed the most promising.)
As it happens, I had done a fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 and then
updated with Mandrakefreq since my previous email, so the libdl.so.1
link I had created to libdl.so.2.x.x was gone.
Before I installed the library, I tried a variety of rpm queries (rpm -q
--whatprovides, --whatrequires, --provides to see what required
libdl.so.2, what provided libdl.so.2, etc.). Then I took a deep breath
...
I used rpm -ivh --force ld.so-1.9.5-8.i386.rpm, followed by ldconfig -l
/lib/libdl.so.1.9.5. (I didn't try installing Netscape before the
ldconfig, so I'm not absolutely sure that the ldconfig step is
necessary. The resulting library (libdl.so.1.9.5) worked fine -- I did
not have to rename or link it to libdl.so.1.
Thanks again!
Randy Kramer
John Wolford wrote:
>
> Hi Randy,
>
> Yes, go to rpmfind.net and look for an older version of libdl. You can also
> look at tuxfinder.com.
>
> Then have fun installing that older version. I DON"T KNOW, but i would try
> something like "rpm -ivh --force <rpm package filename>". Note that you are
> _installing_ it, not upgrading it, hence -ivh instead of -Uvh. If that works,
> then you should have two versions of that package installed.
>
> Read the man page of rpm, obviously, before you go pulling some stunt like
> that. And make sure that the worst that could happen is you would have to
> uninstall the misunderstanding and install the original package again.
>
> Good luck,
> j
>
> --- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For compatibility with mail files on Windows systems, I want to use
> > Netscape 3 (3.04) on my Mandrake 7.2 box.
> >
> > I've downloaded the tar.gz file, read the instructions,
> > unzipped/untarred it and tried to install it.
> >
> > First problem: It says it needs libdl.so.1, and sure enough, it's not
> > on Mandrake 7.2.
> >
> > Someone suggests that I create a softlink between libdl.so.1 and the
> > libdl on Mandrake (libdl-2.1.3.so), so I did, and they also suggest
> > running ldconfig.
> >
> > The soft link exists. At first ldconfig didn't appear to work, so then
> > I did:
> >
> > ldconfig -l /lib/libdl.so.1 , and it seemed to work (no complaint
> > messages).
> >
> > Now when I try to run the Netscape installer, I get:
> >
> > "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Randy Kramer
> >
>
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