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[mikkel meinike <mimeini AT gmail.com>]

He!

>I don't know. Is it very hard to get the packages another way? I thought that
>you just needed to download a recent netpbm package, and the relevant
>library packages from Slackware. Maybe 2-4 packages.

hmm... I was only trying to make it the eyas way. The way I described
I used with mulinux and it worked but I see if I wont to put it out
for others than I have some kind of responsibility.

It needs to be a precompiled packages (thy needs PERL to compile and I
don't have PERL on my BL3) and netpbm is not part of SW as fare as I
can see. so I don't know where to get it.

basically I like BL3 the way it is and I wont to change as little as possible.
Also I am mostly satistfied with the netpbm packages that is in from
Sindi. The netpbm packages is organized in 3 parts. converters,
editors, and analyzers, with the converters I am satestfyed, analyzers
I need a tool for measuring i don't know if it is there, but then
there are some editors that apply some alagorithems to images,
pnmconvol, there is pnmdither, pnmcolormap, pnmgamma, pnmchannal
(maybe the names is wrong I am not checking now just remembering)
where this editors unable to compile ore run under lib5 ore where thy
left out fore saving space?

>> If SW91 has these libraries, you could try installing the libc so package
>> from that using the pkg command (which also makes the proper symlinks).
>> Several of us have added a libc6 (from SW81 and maybe SW71) and it works.
>> Libc5 and libc6 are stored in different places and you can use programs
>> that require either one.  It gets trickier if there are dependencies other
>> than libc-related (which is what happens using the libc5 netpbm in BL2).

>You can avoid all of that by using glibc2-based software after the upgrade.

Yes but I don't wont to upgrade my whole system if I can avoid that I
just wont the editors of the netpbm packages.


> I tried installing the glibc package from the latest Slackware
> and it refused to work on the BasicLinux foundation.

>SW81 2.2.5 works.  Did you try SW9.1?  What IS the latest version now?

>What do you think is causing the incompatibility?

>From discussion on the VL forum there is a change from SW9.1 to 10 thy
call it a "completely different lib system".

/Mikkel