[ale] Library/ Browser conflicts in Slackware-9.1

David S. Jackson deepbsd at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 23 21:03:03 EDT 2003


On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:48:34PM -0400 John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I tried to install packages for Mozilla and Netscape as included in 
> Slack-9.1, but I had two library problems. First, I needed a few that I 
> haven't installed yet, but more importantly, both these packages insist on 
> some libs _older_ than the versions -9.1 provides. What do I need to get 
> a viable Netscape or Mozilla package installation?
> 
> [This must be a FEP ("Frequently Encountered Pothole")!]

You might check out Dropline Gnome; they include a mozilla build by
default.  In fact, they include a bunch of other software all
compiled against consistent libs.  All the popular gnome apps are
included by default.  See www.dropline.net/gnome/

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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