Re: Missing files for browsers in -current

[Clay Daniels <clays.shell%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Benny Siegert wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:40:16 +0200
> From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: Clay Daniels <clays.shell%sdf.org@localhost>
> Cc: netbsd-users <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Missing files for browsers in -current
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 8:37 AM Clay Daniels <clays.shell%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> > I've been trying to get a browser working in -current. I tried Firefox the
> > other day but it did not work the other day. Tonight I loaded the new
> > snapshot of NetBSD 9.66.70 and I thouht I would try Tor instead. I get the
> > same message:
>
> Which repository are you using? This looks like you are trying to use
> packages built for NetBSD 9.
>
> You can fix this by downloading a base.tgz for NetBSD 9 and extracting
> the libraries in question from there into /usr/lib.
>
>
> --
> Benny

Benny, thanks for the suggestion. Actually what happened was Patrick 
Welche sent me the two files I needed, and I was able to install Firefox 
on current. However, when I tried to run it all I got was a firefox.core 
file. So I loaded 9.0 Stable from 10 Aug and Firefox installed & works 
just fine. I looked closer at the libraries in 9.0 Stable and they are 
loaded here in /lib & /usr/lib.
---
localhost$ cat libs_9stable
calhost$ cd /lib
localhost$ ls -al libterminfo*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     18 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so -> 
libterminfo.so.1.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     18 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so.1 -> 
libterminfo.so.1.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  65056 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so.1.0
localhost$ ls -al libcurses*
ls: libcurses*: No such file or directory
localhost$ cd /usr/lib
localhost$ ls -al libcurses*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  372278 Aug 17 09:38 libcurses.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      16 Aug 17 09:38 libcurses.so -> 
libcurses.so.8.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      16 Aug 17 09:38 libcurses.so.8 -> 
libcurses.so.8.2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  196600 Aug 17 09:38 libcurses.so.8.2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  400150 Aug 17 09:38 libcurses_p.a
localhost$ ls -al libterminfo*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  89386 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     28 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so -> 
../../lib/libterminfo.so.1.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     28 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so.1 -> 
../../lib/libterminfo.so.1.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     28 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo.so.1.0 -> 
../../lib/libterminfo.so.1.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  92546 Aug 17 09:38 libterminfo_p.a
localhost$
---

What I have been doing is running 9.0 Stable & -current mostly alternating 
between the two so I can get a better feel for both. What I will say is 
that 9.0 Stable works great every time, and -current takes some work. I 
will return to current later, hopefully knowing more and having a copy of 
the files handy, thanks to Patrick & you.

Thanks,
Clay