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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 installation
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 20:45:51 +0000
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Stephen Cawood wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am attempting to install XFree86 3.2 for my 2.1 installation of BSD.
> I have followed all the steps and after all was said and done I recieved
> the error message
> 
> cannot find shared file libc.so.3.0
> 
> This file is nowhere to be found on my system.
> What's up?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Create a symlink that points libc.so.3.0 to libc.so.2.2 . This is not
normally recommended practice, but it works in this instance.
-- 
Ken

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