Installing Mozilla, missing libraries

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Sat Sep 20 06:25:41 PDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:16:30PM +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On stardate Sat, 20 Sep 2003, the wise Bernd Walter entered:
> 
> > > Unfortunately they are not...
> > > The package is mozilla-1.0.0-9
> >
> > Why do you want such an old browser?
> 
> Because it is the only Mozilla version that runs on Alpha.

[63]cicely12# uname -a
FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Wed Aug 20 22:20:53 CEST 2003     ticso at cicely12.cicely.de:/var/d3/obj/var/d3/c12-2003-08-17/src/sys/CICELY12  alpha
[64]cicely12# pkg_info 'mozilla*'
Information for mozilla-1.3.1,2:
[...]

This was done in 5.1-RELEASE timeframe, however 1.4 still didn't work
the last time I checked and afaik no debugging has been done yet.
You should just give recent mozilla and mozilla-devel ports a try.
If they don't work it could be something simple.

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