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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Bill Squier (groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu)
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