Hi Ron, On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:21 -0700, Ron Young wrote:

I tried to install the firefox binary. I heard that flash and acroread will work with the 32-bit binary. The installer can't find the gtk libraries.

If you want to install 32-bit binaries that use gtk (or any other libraries), you need to make sure you have 32-bit versions of the libraries installed. Do you. Do "pkginfo -i | grep gtk" -- do you see gtk 2.6.7-1 and gtk32 2.6.7-1? The gtk32 package in opt-x86_64 puts everything in /usr/lib32, so make sure that path is in /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, add it and run "ldconfig". It's possible that you may need to add the path to the 32-bit gtk libraries manually to whatever command line you use to install the 32-bit firefox. There may be other library dependencies that I've not yet provided 32-bit version of as well, and you'll need to satisfy those yourself. Running "ldd /path/to/some/executable" will tell you what libraries it's expecting to find. If it's a 32-bit executable, you'll need 32-bit versions of those libraries.

Several other ports have trouble finding gtk with their configure files.

Last time you were having trouble with gtk, I asked you to make sure you have all the ports you need, and to make sure prt-get.conf has the right paths, in the right order. Are all these things done?

Is there anyway around this??

What errors are you getting in particular? Knowing this'd help. Jeremy