can't find "libc.so.6"

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:43, service at fixer.com wrote:
> umame -a ----  FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31
> 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VIL    i386
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------
>
> I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer.  I am trying to
> install wput-.0.5 (the package).  It requires libgnugotop-1.2.   I
> installed libgnugotop and wput.   This may not be required, but some
> programs do not work unless you shutdown and restart the computer.
>
> Every time I try to run wput, I get a message that says "shared object   --
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1      libc.so.6  not found".  I find some of these libc
> programs on Google.com.  Right now, after trying to find libc.so.6, I think
> I'm "googled out".
>
> I need to know where I can find "libc.so.6".  Hopefully, someone can help.
>
> greg
> webmasters at fixer.com

Sounds like the package was  for freebsd ver 6. Run env and
see what PACKAGESITE is set to, here is one from a 5.4 Stable system:

PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/

-Mike