can't find "libc.so.6"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:43:06PM -0700, 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.

You tried to install a package intended for FreeBSD 6.0.  This
probably means that you downloaded it from the wrong directory.

Kris
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