Subject: Re: newbie and libs
To: Colomb <amcolomb@students.wisc.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/25/1999 02:01:13
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Colomb wrote:

> 	I'm a complete newbie to Netbsd and only have a little experience
> with UNIX like OS's.  I just installed 1.4 along with X, Apache and Mosaic.
> I wanted to view the documentation for Apache using mosiac, but everytime I
> tried running mosaic it would ay that libpng1.1.lib (or something similar)
> couldn't be found.  I assumed that the appropriate files would be included
> in the mosaic tar file, but I guess I'm mistaken.  I'm also using the
> Macintosh installer app.  I searched everywhere and couldn't find it on the
> drive so obviuosly it wasn't installed.  This also happens with some X
> programs I installed in a similar fashion excpet they are looking for a
> different library.  Again, I searched the drive and couldn't find the
> library in question.  How come I'm missing these libraries and how to I get
> them in the correct place.  Thank you

Did you user 'pkg_add' to install mosaic? If you had, it should have
downloaded or asked you to download libpng et. al. Likewise if you
build from pkgsrc. Please read

<http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html>