Re: [newbie] Plugger

1999-10-24 Thread Alan_N
John Aldrich wrote: Hey, all...just a reminder that the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is the Libc5 version, and if you go to get "plugger" or any other C-version specific plugin, you need to get the libc5 version, not the GLIBC2 version. :-) Mandrake itself may use glibc2, but the Mandrake RPM

Re: [newbie] Plugger

1999-10-24 Thread Alan_N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know? You can tell what libraries an application is linked against using the command: ldd application Because of all the "behind the curtain" work to get Netscape even resembling stable, you'll

Re: [newbie] Thanks for insights and one more question

1999-10-16 Thread Alan_N
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Seth and friends: Whenever you exit Linux improperly (su - to shutdown -h now), Linux will run the fsck on your hard drives to check and fix and file system errors. It does this magnificently, by the way. It's like the ScanDisk in Windows, only (I am told by