Re: Newbie question! Missing libintl...

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:44:12PM -0500, Michael Rowe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install ncftp (from the 2.6 CD) with pkg_add. It
> installs ok, but when I try to run it, I get the following error:
> 
>      /usr/libexec/ld.so: ncftp: libintl.so.1.0: No such file or directory

Install the gettext port.  Or better yet, check out the openbsd ftp
client.  It supports tab completion, url downloads and sessions 
(ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ and etc), HTTP downloads,
without an ugly curses interface, annoying "buy our ftpd" messages,
obnoxious bookmarking, and the like.  Seriously.  It rules.

> Ok, ok, I'm new to the whole BSD thing... so, is this some sort of
> libpath problem, or is the lib really missing? If so, where do I get
> it? This was a vanilla install of OpenBSD.

That's a missing dependancy.  It's probably not necessary to install
gettext for ncftp to compile, but if it's there it's required. There
are several gotchas like this in the ports tree, unfortunately.

> In a similar vein, I'm also trying to get emacs going. It complains
> about a missing libXaw. I don't have X installed... is there something
> I need to do/install to make emacs work in console mode?
> 
> Thanks for any light you can shed!

You'll probably want to compile that package yourself, or better yet
check out "mg" in -current.  It's an emacs clone with most of the 
scripting and all of the non-editor stuff stripped out.

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