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Doug Linder (faust@access5.digex.net) wrote:
: Michael Shields (shields@tembel.org) wrote:

: :>To fix this:
: :>
: :>1. Complain to Red Hat for not including libc 4 even when the libc
: :>maintainers specifically asked distributors to keep including it for
: :>just this reason.

: Aha!  So *that's* why I haven't heard back from support@redhat.com...

I'm running Red Hat 2.0 (I even re-installed it last night because I 
accidentally demolished my /var/lib/rpm directory) right now, and Netscape and
other a.out (pre-ELF) binaries are running just fine.  Did you click on 'a.out 
compatibility' when you installed?  I'm not sure what this did, but I'm running
a.outs okay (including some I compiled under a 1.0 kernel) without libc.so.4
installed. 

If you really want to install libc.so.4 and other a.out libraries, do the following:
1. Mount the Red Hat CD #1.  You should be able to do this by just typing
mount /mnt/cdrom.  You may have to create this directory first (I did).
2. cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
3. rpm -qpl aout-libs-1.2-1.i386.rpm
This will show you all the files which are contained in the RPM.  You should
see about 25 libraries, including libc.so.4/libc.so.4.7.2.
4. rpm -i aout-libs-1.2-1.i386.rpm
This will actually install the libraries.

Should take about a minute for all 4 steps.
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