Subject: Re: NetBSD runs linux, mostly... (was: your mail)
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/12/2000 16:28:36
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:10:35PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 16:16:15 (+0200), Hubert Feyrer wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: your mail
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Ashish Gupta wrote:
> > > Can netbsd execute linux executalbe files (architecture is same).
> > 
> > Yup - very well, indeed. :)
> > 
> > You'll need Linux shared libs, though. These are available via pkgsrc in
> > the emulators/suse_linux package.
> 
> Yes, except unfortunately for the new beta release of Netscape-6.x.  It
> needs a bunch of libraries not included in the suse_linux package or any
> of its dependents, such as libgtk-1.2.so.0, libgdk-1.2.so.0,
> libgmodule-1.2.so.0, and libglib-1.2.so.0.  Does anyone have another
> SuSE sub-package that might contain one or more of these?

The required libjpeg is only available in RedHat's distribution.  You want:

suse:
	gtk.rpm
	glib.rpm

redhat:
	libjpeg-6b-10.i386.rpm



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