Netscape navigator for FreeBSD5.1
Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Sep 25 10:52:34 PDT 2004
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-aoutlibs
make install
Ted
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virupaksh Honnur [mailto:viruhonn at cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:43 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Virupaksh Honnur; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Netscape navigator for FreeBSD5.1
>
>
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a PC installed with FreeBSD5.1 and I would like to install
> > > netscape on it but can't find a suitable netscape version that can run
> > > on FreeBSD5.1.
> > >
> > >
> > > I downloaded communicator-v476-us.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz and
> > > installed this version but when I execute this it gives a "exec format
> > > error".
> > >
> >
> > It's because it requires the aout X libraries. They are somewhere
> > in the ports section. Make sure to make, make install when you are NOT
> > running X on the system!!! (ie: do not do this in an x window)
>
> Could you please point me to exact library that I need to install?.
>
> Thanks,
> -Viru
>
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