Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((Ted Harding))]

On 05-Aug-99 Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
>> 1. Installed Netscape. Tried to start it. It complained that it
>> needed libstdc++.so.2.8
>> 
> http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/dbloms_61netscape_library.html

**   /opt/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries
**   libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
**   directory last exitcode:127
**
**   Reason:
**
**   By uninstalling Apllixware the library libstdc++.so.2.8 was also
**   uninstalled. 

Right, that was what I did! So I guess it will indeed work OK once
"compat" is reinstalled.

However, this leads me to a comment about Applixware as distributed
with SuSE.

By the time I got round to installing SuSE-6.1, it turned out that
the Applixware demo had timed out anyway, which was why I removed it;
in any case I'm not that interested in a demo, even if not time-limited,
which is going to occupy nearly 300MB just for the pleasure of
word-processing a 1-page document (which turns out to be another of its
limitations, as I learned from the "Package Info" when uninstalling).

It went on in the first place, because SuSE-6.1 installs ApplixWare
by default, without asking. To evade that, you'd have had to work through
the details of the "Select Packages" listings, including the "Package
Info" details, before starting the first "Start Installation".

So I'm wondering:

a) If having the ApplixWare demo is worth much to anyone in the first
   place;

b) If the SuSE folk could make installing it more visibly optional
   (maybe with a word in the documentation about its limits; the printed
   Manual, for instance, has nothing whatever significant to say about
   this).

As things stand, there is a strong probability of walking into this one
with your eyes shut. Given its side-effects, it does not give a good
impression.

Best wishes,
Ted.

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Date: 05-Aug-99                                       Time: 12:06:43
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