*- the lone gunman wrote about "Re: Netscape Navigator"
| On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:05:42AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote:
| > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:02:18PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us
the following words of wisdom:
| > > On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:52:26PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
| > > > The netscape license (until this past january, and no releases have
been
| > > > made since then) didn't allow us to redistribute the netscape binaries.
| > > > You have to download them from ftp.netscape.com. Put them in /tmp,
| > > > download the installer .deb, and dpkg -i it. It'll take care of
setting
| > > > up netscape and putting it in the right parts of the file tree, etc. ..
| > >
| > > What is the file name of the Netscape installer deb file?
| >
| > netscape4_4.0-12.deb
|
| Is that for the hamm system? I got that file, and it said I need to
| install libc5, among other things associated with bo.
|
Yes it is for hamm. It actually wants the following:
Depends: motifnls, ldso (>= 1.9.7-0), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libc6,
libg++27 (>= 2.7.2.1-1), xlib6 (>= 3.3-0), xpm4.7 (>= 3.4j-0)
| Plus, does that install the latest Navigator, 4.5pr1, compiled for
| linux with libc6?
|
I installed 4.5pr1 with the installer and it worked without a hitch.
It matches the tarball against the wildcards of
communicator-v4*.x86-*-linux*.tar*, and
navigator-v4*.x86-*-linux*.tar*
So any valid netscape tarball that fits those shell expansions will
install. That is if the tarball's file structure is as expected.
Note that libc5 plugins will crash 4.5pr1 when called!
--
Brian
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