ghostview missing libc.so.4?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Dec 27 22:58:48 PST 2003


In the last episode (Dec 27), Chip Wiegand said:
> Mine has libc.so.5. No wonder the app is failing, it specifically
> wants .4 and is too dumb to work with anything newer. I'm getting
> real frustrated with this again, I'd like to move away from MS but
> it's not easy to do when the apps I need don't even work
> properly.</rant>

Somehow you managed to install a FreeBSD 4 package onto a FreeBSD 5
system.  pkg_delete it, then run "pkg_add -r ghostview" to fetch the
correct package from ftp.freebsd.org, or cd into
/usr/ports/print/ghostview and run "make install" if you want to build
it yourself.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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