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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mtools don't work
Date: 7 Aug 1996 22:06:26 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <D459RD1w165w@tusia.kiel.org>,
Maciej Wiatr <macko@tusia.kiel.org> wrote:
>
>I run FreeBSD 2.1 and have installed the mtools, which came on the
>CD. Trying to read a DOS floppy I get following :
>
>ld.so:mdir: Can't find shared library "libc.so.3.0".
>
>As I can understand the library, which is required does not exist in
>my system or at least it cannot be found. Where can I find it ?
>Or do I do something wrong installing mtools?

You seem to have somehow picked up the mtools package from
FreeBSD-current (the development version which will become version
2.2), which has a later version of the shared libraries.  Either
get hold of the 2.1 package, or do

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s libc.so.2.2 libc.so.3.0

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/