Hello again. I am making progress. I have now set up ppp and am connecting 
to my ISP with no problem. However, I have no browser. It came about like 
this...

I installed Mosaic successfully. I discovered that it (apparently) does not 
deal with tables. Many of the sites that I normally visit are a mess with 
Mosaic, as it comes out of the box, although they display perfectly with 
IExplorer and Konqueror.

I then tried to install Galeon 1.2.1, which required a lot of downloading 
(from the NetBSD 1.5 ftp site) to get the correct files. I finally got 
stuck when the Galeon install requested Mozilla-1.0rc1, which cannot be 
found anywhere.

I then went back to Mosaic, only to find that it would not run, with the 
following message:

/usr/lib/ld.so: mosaic: libpng.so.1.4: no such file or directory.

A find on libpng* gives the following files:

/usr/pkg/lib/libpng.a
/usr/pkg/lib/libpng.la
/usr/pkg/lib/libpng.so.3.0

It would appear that the attempt to install Galeon has updated the files to 
something that Mosaic cannot cope with. I have tried forcing a re-install 
on Mosaic and a few other packages to see if they would re-register, but to 
no avail. This is new ground to me, so if someone could point me where I 
can start sorting this out (hopefully without re-installing), then it would 
be very nice.

What browsers are available? I have not installed KDE yet, but I can run 
Gnome, but am running fvwm95 at the moment as it runs rather quicker than 
Gnome. Gnome runs slightly quicker than on my Pentium 120, but much slower 
than my Pentium 500, and when you get used to the higher speeds..

Addendum

After writing the above, I checked the requirements of Mosaic using 
pkg_info, and it requires png>1.0.9. The version installed during the 
Galeon saga was png-1.2.1, which seems to me to be more than adequate. I 
re-installed png-1.0.10 and Mosaic started working again. However, Gnome 
does not, the X server locks up part way through initialisation. I seem to 
have really messed things up. How can I set this right?

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Regards, Phillip Marsden.

phillip.marsden@btinternet.com