The i386 files run fine on a kernel that is i586,
it is backwards compatible usually.
Get the common and communicator two files if you want email and newsgroups.
Get the common and navigator two files if you want a browser only.
Get the 4.72 files, not 4.7
Install the common first, which will uninstall the original also.
The install teh corresponding second one you need.
I run the Kpackage to do my work in Mandrake. Not the update facility.
netscape-common-4.72-6.i386.rpm (must have)
netscape-communicator-4.72-6.i386.rpm (email and browser and news)
netscape-navigator-4.72-6.i386.rpm (browser only)
I use these files on a MacMillan 6.0 system which is i586.
steve
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which file(s) do I download for the 4.72 update...
will it work on Mandrake...seeing as most drake files...
are of the i586.rpm format...
steve harris wrote:
>
> Someone asked earlier about browsers.
>
> Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better
though,
> M14 is the latest I think.
>
> This 4.72 Netscape is better on my old machine than the 4.61 and 4.70
> "stable" versions.
>
> Download the 4.72 stable versions from this ftp site.
>
> ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/
>
> The single file versions from the Netscape site itself always seemed to
be
> unstable.
>
> fwiw
>
> steve
>
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