Hello!
For reasons that seemed logical to me, I decided to check to see if
Moz-Firefox would properly run here, it does not.

It complains that its linked against the previous libcstd libraries.
In this case the .so.5 ones.

Not surprisingly the same problem surfaced against T-Bird.

This is a freshly installed arrangement of Slackware-11.0 using the
UMSDOS form, (zipslack) the packages were grabbed over a course of
three days during all of last month.

Just for fun I am trying the Slack packaged release of version 2.0 of
Firefox. I'll report on that later.

I will gladly entertain comments.
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Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com

gregg dot drwho wrote :

> It complains that its linked against the previous libcstd libraries.
> In this case the .so.5 ones.

Are you sure its not the libstdc libraries your missing? If so they are
to be found in the cxxlibs package:
$ less /var/log/packages/cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1
PACKAGE NAME: cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 1162 K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 3740 K
PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/slackware/a/cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
cxxlibs: cxxlibs (C++ shared library compatibility package)
cxxlibs:
cxxlibs: This package contains the shared libraries needed to run dynamically
cxxlibs: linked C++ binaries linked with older versions of libstdc++.
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Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
> It complains that its linked against the previous libcstd libraries.
> In this case the .so.5 ones.

In a lot of cases, though not all, a link
libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.6
will do the trick.
Untill 11 Slackware only came with the .5 version of this, but Pat updated
to the .6 version which may break some older (precompiled) programs.

PS: if you really need the .5 version: it is available as
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
so make a link in one of the "standard" lib dirs to it will also work
(or adding this dir to the /etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig).
As we've got quite a lot of "our own compilations", we've got this dir
standard in the ld.so.conf on all our systems.

> This is a freshly installed arrangement of Slackware-11.0 using the
> UMSDOS form, (zipslack) the packages were grabbed over a course of
> three days during all of last month.

As I said, the cxxlibs package _does_ contain the .so.5 version too
(and even the .so.4 one).
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