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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

Thanks all. I tried ldd /bin/ftp and the only file that is missing in bl2
is the libreadline.so.3. I tried extracting it from the tcpip1.tgz (which ftp 
was
in) by using "tar -zxvf /mnt/tcpip1.tgz libreadline.so.3" (floppy was
mounted on /mnt) but it was not in it. Will try elflib.tgz next.

On Fri, 23 May 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> russ loroville wrote:
> >
> > "FTP: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.3 :
> > cannot open shared object file: no file or directory"
>
> Apparently the FTP executable needs a library that is not
> in BasicLinux.  To see what libraries it needs, do this:
> -------
> ldd ftp
> -------
>
> The readline library is in the elflibs.tgz package.
> You will find it in /slakware/a4.  There are several
> common libraries in elflibs.tgz so, sooner or later,
> most of us will need to install it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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