[csw-users] n00bness kicking in

[Darin Perusich]

no worries, we don't use $LD_LIBRARY_PATH here at blastwave.

i use both firefox and thunderbird from the mozilla contribs without
setting $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or changing the crle(1) and they both work
fine. what version of solaris and is it a full install?

Tim Smith wrote:
> bash-3.00$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> bash-3.00$
> 
> 
> should I worry?
> 
> 
> Mats Larsson wrote:
> 
>> On 2006-09-12 16:56, EBradley at williams-int.com wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Really?  Hmm...I've used the firefox from that site since 1.0 on both
>>> Sol 9 and 10 on several types of Sun hardware without incident.
>>>    
>>>
>> Same here. Always work as expected. Sure you haven't messed up your 
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
>>
>> /MOL
>>
>>  
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org
>>> [mailto:users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Tim Smith
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:48 AM
>>> To: questions and discussions
>>> Subject: Re: [csw-users] n00bness kicking in
>>>
>>> Tried that version and it didnt work :-(
>>>
>>> Segfaults for me every time (tbird too).
>>>
>>>
>>> EBradley at williams-int.com wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>> Not to discourage someone using pkg-get, but firefox is available via 
>>>> the web for the Solaris platform.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6.html#othersystems
>>>>
>>>> And then it's aaallllll the way down at the bottom of the page in 
>>>> either a tarball or pkgadd format.  The tarball is what I've always
>>>>      
>>>>
>>> done.
>>>    
>>>
>>>> Untar it, cd into the directory, and your binary is right there.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> Evan D. Bradley
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org
>>>> [mailto:users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org] On
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>> Behalf Of Tim Smith
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:32 AM
>>>> To: questions and discussions
>>>> Subject: [csw-users] n00bness kicking in
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I'm trying to upgrade firefox from the ancient 1.0.6 ive been stuck
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>> with to the new shiny 1.5.whatever that I just noticed is availible.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is, it has a lot of deps that need updating.
>>>>
>>>> Right now, I'm manually re-running pkg-get -i firefox, waiting for it 
>>>> to DL 20 megs, then waiting to see which package dep needs updating, 
>>>> then repeating the process down the chain for each package ....
>>>>
>>>> running pkg-get -h doesnt seem to provide a better way.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a quicker way I can give pkg-get an argument to "update 
>>>> dependancies as needed but dont update everything on my system", as I 
>>>> do
>>>> -NOT- want to invoke a qt/kde update by accident...
>>>>
>>>> does that question make sense?
>>>>


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com