Re: library versions in pkgsrc binaries

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 09/18, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> I currently have two servers running in production mode at a remote
> data centre.  For reasons discussed in this list back in May/June,
> they are currently running 8.0_RC1.
> 
> I need to get a browser running on one of them, so I tried to pkg_add - u -u
> firefox60 using as PKG_PATH ..../x86_64/8.0_2018Q1/All.  This version
> complained that libstdc++.so.8 was not found.   So I tried using
> ..../x86_64/7.0_2018Q1/All, and got the complaint that libfreetype.so.18
> was not found.

Hi, Steve.

If you really need a browser running on one of them, then OK; but are
you sure?  I'm only asking in case you've concluded you need this when
you actually could do something else.  If getting Firefox to run on one
of your servers is looking to be a real pain, and if all you need is to
be able to run a browser as if it were running on one of your servers,
maybe an OpenSSH SOCKS tunnel (i.e., the "-D" option to ssh) would work
for you?  You'd establish the SOCKS tunnel from your local computer to
the server and then configure the browser on your local computer to
use the SOCKS tunnel as its SOCKS proxy.  I understand there could be
multiple reasons why this wouldn't work for you, but it's just a thought
in case it would.

Regards,

Lewis