On Thu Feb 25 1999 at 11:01, "root of all evil (Rem)" wrote:
> Hello, all of you LINUXers out there. I have upgraded my one machine to
> SLACKWARE LINUX 2.0.35 and now netscape (several current versions)
2.0.35 is the version of the kernel, not the version of the slugware
release. It's also not the latest kernel (2.0.36 - although 2.2.2 has
only very recently been released), and I suspect this is not the very
latest slugware release.
> is complaining that it can't load a library file called
> libstdc++.<something>.so
> (I can't remember the <something> which represents the version of
> the library, but I've located the file and it looks ok to me) Does
> anyone have a clue how to solve this problem? Is it a problem with
> netscape or the set of software installed by the upgrade process?
> I'd really like to get netscape working again.
>
> Any help will really be appreciated. Thank you all in advance!
Slackware -- you loose. Last time I heard, slugware was still using
libc5 (which is broken and no longer supported) instead of glibc6, and
still using the old g++/c++ development kit rather than the newer
egcs/c++ compiler which uses the libstdc++ libraries.
The short-sighted solution is to install the relevant shared libraries
onto your system to allow netscape to run.
The long-sighted solution is to never touch slugware again and go with
a real distribution like debian, suse, or redhat.
[Ah-oh, I'm probably going to start a "distribution" war with this, but
quite frankly I don't care. :) Point is that slugware is now a
historical fossil that has no place except for very specific purposes
as a hacker's installation.]
Cheers
Tony
