[Sheflug] Weird world of Netscape 6/jpeg

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello Stephen,

On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> 
> You are going to have to find a more up-to-date binary package,
> preferably from SuSE.
> 
>     Harvey> Ah, there's some stuff in /usr/local/bin (cjpeg, djpeg,
>     Harvey> jpegtran,rdjpgcom, wrjpgcom - with the "new" date), but
>     Harvey> how do I get at Id.so.conf?  emacs Id.so.conf results in a
>     Harvey> lovely blank page.
> 
> `little ell'd.so.conf, not `big eye'd.so.conf; ditto for ldconfig.  I
> like LucidaTypewriter for reading code, myself....

Oh sh*t.  a lower-case L.  Mmm.  Sorry, I'd been typing, oh well, you knew...

> 
>     Harvey> But, this jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz was the only thing a search
>     Harvey> at freshmeat brought up.
> 
> Freshmeat isn't the place for what you're looking for.  Would you
> butcher your own cow?  Freshmeat is for people who do the equivalent
> with software, or people who are desperate.  Do a full web search
> before going to freshmeat.
> 
> Having said that, I am VERY VERY disappointed in SuSE.  Their web site
> SUCKS for this purpose.  I eventually found a "libjpeg.rpm" under SuSE
> 6.3 on the FTP site, but who knows what's in it.  I also found a ML
> message indicating this is a common problem with SuSE.  C'est la vie.

Yep, I've finally found that libjpeg.rpm, let's see what happens.  A while ago
I had to go looking for a more recent version of ppp, when I updated my kernel
from 2.2.10 to 2.2.14, as I couldn't find it at SuSE's site.  But hey, they did
give me the most recent version of The Gimp (i.e. extremely unstable) so I
could download the last stable release to install instead.  

The sad thing is I think that if this was a Microsoft problem, we'd all be
having a field day.  Would anyone from SuSE care to comment on where the
required package is? 

>  
> You could try Red Hat or Turbolinux's RPMs; these are easily available 
> on their FTP sites (or were, back in the prehistoric age of 1998 when 
> I was beta-testing for PHT (now Turbolinux) Japan; I don't do RPMs 
> anymore, although I often borrow the source code out of SRPMs :). 
>  
> I will not guarantee they will work on your SuSE system, but they 
> likely will. 

The libjpeg.rpm has just downloaded whilst I'm writing this, I've installed and
it's made absolutely no difference.  So a Red Hat or Turbolinux RPM it is.

Thanks again

Harvey
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