Trying to run old, retro version of Netscape..

mightyquinn · 05-17-2004, 09:58 AM

I just got a hold of a copy of an old 3.04 version of Netscape, and I wanted to play around with it on my Debian SID system. I figured I might have to do some LD_PRELOAD futzing, but unfortunately, it won't even start... when I switch to the directory where I untarred the program and run ./netscape, bash says "No such file or directory", even though it's certainly there.

Is there any way to do this? It's really not critical, but I want to play around with it.

TheOther1 · 05-17-2004, 01:04 PM

Do you have rights to the files and is netscape executable? Try chmod +x /dir/where/netscape/is/netscape and chown your_id:your_id /dir/where/netscape/is/*

mightyquinn · 05-17-2004, 02:56 PM

Yup. Permissions are right and everything. 'file netscape' reports it as being the proper 32bit ELF executable. it's worth noting that ldd and strace won't work on it either, both producing the same error as just trying to straight-out run it.

I recall this happening with one other program in the past.. the Id distributed binary for glquake, which was also pretty old. (I ended up seeking out a sourceport of quake1 before I ever figured that out, though)

XavierP · 05-17-2004, 02:57 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux-Software and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

mightyquinn · 05-17-2004, 03:03 PM

Ah! I figured out what it was. Turns out, it's old enough that it wanted ld-linux.so.1, and I only had ld-linux.so.2 on my machine. Nowww to start playing with LD_PRELOADs...