Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Sara Gil Casanova
Hi! I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little better. Do you think it could be so, or would they look like as in Mozilla? In case the answer to the

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 30 May 2003 22:08, Sara Gil Casanova wrote: Hi! I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little better. Do you think it could be so, or would

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
Sara Gil Casanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little better. Do you think it could be so, or would they look

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:43:41PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: No, in Netscape 4.xx a webpage might look different than in Mozilla, but in Netscape 6 and Netscape 7, it would look just like Mozilla shows it. To clarify my prior post, I don't

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little better. Do you think it could be so, or would they look like as in Mozilla? It is a partial solution. In

Re: Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution)

2003-01-07 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
I solved this problem creating a sim link. ln -s libst... so.2 libst... so.3 this works fine. []´s Iced Sun - Original Message - From: Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution) Folks

Re: Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution)

2003-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:04:32AM -0200, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: From: Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] The current version of Mozilla crashes for me on a number of web-site (tv.yahoo.com, www.mywashingtonpost.com, c), so I wanted to try the Netscape 7.0 version. I hit a couple of

Installing Netscape 7.0 (Solution)

2003-01-06 Thread Simon Read
Folks, The current version of Mozilla crashes for me on a number of web-site (tv.yahoo.com, www.mywashingtonpost.com, c), so I wanted to try the Netscape 7.0 version. I hit a couple of roadblocks and want to post so bemused people like me can manage to do this. The installer complains

Installing Netscape 4 on 2.2r2

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Howells
I am attempting to install Netscape 4 on 2.2r2, but am having difficulty. When I do 'apt-get install netscape4', a package is installed, as expected. However there does not seem to be an executable instsalled, and in fact the DEB package is only a few hundered K in size -- certainly not the whole

Re: Installing Netscape 4 on 2.2r2

2001-03-20 Thread Nate Amsden
Chris Howells wrote: What am I actually meant to do to run/install Netscape? modify /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the http lines, and add deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free if its not there already do: apt-get update ; apt-get install communicator (or

Re: Installing Netscape 4 on 2.2r2

2001-03-20 Thread Jason Majors
The apt-get install communicator is the right way, but you need deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Then to run it you have to run communicator (running netscape gets you mozilla). And if you run communicator while mozilla is running, you get a

Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear community, I have installed Debian 2.2r0 from the 3 official CDs, a basically running X-Windows. Now I'd like to install and to configurate Netscape Communicator 4.7x on my system. apt-get install communicator tells: Package commuinicator has no available version, but exists in the

Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Berger
Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear community, I have installed Debian 2.2r0 from the 3 official CDs, a basically running X-Windows. Now I'd like to install and to configurate Netscape Communicator 4.7x on my system. apt-get install communicator tells: Package

AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 12:08 An: Walther, Christoph Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Berger
Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 12:08 An: Walther, Christoph Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official

AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 13:35 An: Walther, Christoph Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs Walther, Christoph [EMAIL

eth0 problem after installing netscape

2000-12-07 Thread Dale Morris
I just did a dist-upgrade and installed netscape 4.76. Now it seems my eth0 connection (cable modem) won't stay active. I am unable to connect to anything and then when I switch to init 1 and back [ctrl-d] then I have a connection that works. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm wondering if

Re: eth0 problem after installing netscape

2000-12-07 Thread Dale Morris
Well, I'm realizing what has happened here. I installed potato on my wife's machine and in the libranet cd it asked for network connection data. I entered my IP address (static IP), dns name servers, gateway, domain, etc.. then when I configured the kernel, I configured it using dhcp. Now, I find

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. ^^^ ^^^ Better get -475 instead, which has better encryption and less security

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
Neither navigator nor communicator are part of Debian proper, so won't be on the CDs--they're not DFSG free, so are in the non-free section (which is not officially supported by or officially part of Debian). Some vendors include a non-free CD, but a good portion do not. Once you set up apt for

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
It was unofficial: netscape's non-free. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, I have installed netscape, though I cannot remember if it was from the official cd or from an unofficial one. You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473.

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:37:24 -0700 (MST), John Galt wrote: Neither navigator nor communicator are part of Debian proper, so won't be on the CDs--they're not DFSG free, so are in the non-free section (which is not officially supported by or officially part of Debian). Some vendors include a

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! If you want Netscape 4, do apt-get install navigator. The navigator package is a meta package that depends on all the real netscape packages. Does this apply to the potato CD? I intended to install Netscape, but I only found Netscape3 in the CD and I didn't find any Communicator. Does

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have installed netscape, though I cannot remember if it was from the official cd or from an unofficial one. You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. Greetings, Sebastiaan On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! If you

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this apply to the potato CD? I intended to install Netscape, but I only found Netscape3 in the CD and I didn't find any Communicator. Does navigator exist in the potato CD? I don't know about the CD, but Netscape 4 is on all the ftp sites

installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread kbrede
I've searched for netscape and install netscape in the archives and I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for netscape 6.0. I installed a package called netscape-base that I can't find any docs for and don't know what it does. I tried useing the install program for

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've searched for netscape and install netscape in the archives and I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for netscape 6.0. I installed a package called netscape-base that I can't find any docs for and don't know what it does. I tried

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
1) mozilla is virtually indistinguishable from netscape 6 (in fact, early versions of netscape6 installed as mozilla plus a link to the name netscape 2) Netscape 4 is referred to by its minor number--I did a dpkg -l|grep netscape and got ii netscape 4.75-2 Meta package that

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-25 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:12:31PM -0500, Brad wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: If you can wait a day or two: the deb packages for 4.75 are in incoming just now. Do they have strong encryption yet? I installed the debs from

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-25 Thread Shaul Karl
--a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:12:31PM -0500, Brad wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: =20 If you can wait a day or two: the deb packages for

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do they have strong encryption yet? Yes, they have, according to www.fortify.net. Greetings, joachim

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was given the message that I needed the shared library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. I've checked in the internet, but

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: If you can wait a day or two: the deb packages for 4.75 are in incoming just now. Do they have strong encryption yet? -- finger for GPG public key. pgp8so9QkgqLA.pgp Description: PGP signature

installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-21 Thread John Anderson
I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was given the message that I needed the shared library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. I've checked in the internet, but all I find is rpm packages for other

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 08/21/00 21:49:25 -0400, John Anderson wrote: I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was given the message that I needed the shared library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. I've checked in the

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-07-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice which packages are virtual and which other are not? Hmm. There are very few virtual packages.

Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz
I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under a name matching one of the

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That did it! Thanks a lot, Gary! Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice which packages are virtual and which other are not? Hmm. There are very few virtual packages. That's the only one I've ever run across, and in

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice which packages are virtual and which other are not? Hmm. There are very few virtual packages. That's the only one I've Everything listed

Installing Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok.. Im trying to install Netscape and when I type apt-get install communicator, I receive erro Couldn,t find package communicator. Any know what I need to do to install Netscape. I also tried apt-get netscape4 and I receive a another error, The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root and

Re: Installing Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:35:15PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Ok.. Im trying to install Netscape and when I type apt-get install communicator, I receive erro Couldn,t find package communicator. Any know what I need to do to install Netscape. What version of Debian are you using? I'm guessing

Re: Help installing Netscape

2000-04-14 Thread r3ck
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux :) * I downloaded 16 MB from

Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Several problems: * I downloaded 16 MB from

Re: Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
J. Hartzelbuck wrote: Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Several problems: * I downloaded 16 MB from

Smail/runq problem after installing Netscape

1999-09-27 Thread David Kanter
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted . So I let smail restart. However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the mail fetchmail received and get

Installing Netscape

1999-08-20 Thread Adam Krell
Hi, I have installed a new copy of Debian and I can't get Netscape to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz from this location: /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/navi gator_standalone and installed it in /tmp

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:35:56PM -0400, Adam Krell wrote: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I checked and I do have the package libstdc++2.9 installed{HYPERLINK libstdc++2.9.html}.

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Loll
Adam Krell wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz from this location: /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/navi gator_standalone

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk browser and double click it then it starts. Ronnie On Mon, 09 Aug 1999, Adam Krell wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file:

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
When I startx I see navigator in the menu (fvwm2) but when I select it nothing happens. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I think you have it installed right, but maybe the fvwm2 menu is not set up right. From an xterm, try typing netscape at the shell prompt. On my system,

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk browser and double click it then it starts. I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz

Installing Netscape

1999-08-09 Thread Adam Krell
Hi, I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz from this location: /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/navi gator_standalone and installed it in /tmp

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-04-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the appropriate oldlibs. Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the fact I get 4.08

Installing Netscape

1999-03-31 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the appropriate oldlibs. Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the fact I get 4.08 or even 4.5)? It just seemed so easy

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-03-31 Thread Kent West
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the appropriate oldlibs. Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the fact I get 4.08 or

Installing Netscape

1999-03-22 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I downloaded netscape-base-45 and tried to install it. It says it depends on netscape-base-4. Where is netscape-base-4? When I go to ftp.debian.org under the non-free/binary-i386 tree and do 'ls */netscape*' I get -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp371996 Oct 13 18:54

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-03-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:03:51PM -0500, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, I downloaded netscape-base-45 and tried to install it. It says it depends on netscape-base-4. Where is netscape-base-4? When I go to ftp.debian.org under the non-free/binary-i386 tree and do 'ls */netscape*' I get

configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Daniel Kahraman
Hello All: How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) for my local ISP? Dan

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Daniel Kahraman wrote: Hello All: How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) for my local ISP? Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Dan, run pppconfig. ( I

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Kahraman writes: How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. Modems require no installation (sometimes they do require some configuration, but not usually). So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) for my local ISP? As root, run

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Unless it's a PnP modem, in which case pon will not connect. So if it's pnp, get isapnp pzackage first and configure the modem. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Little problem with installing netscape and star office

1998-12-10 Thread van den Hurk
Hi, every time I try to start soffice (4.0) or netscape (4.05) I get a message that libXt.so.6 can't be loaded although this file exists on my hdd. So I don't know what to do. Thanx for helping me Jan alias hinkel_stein! PS: Hope you enjoyed my English.

Re: Little problem with installing netscape and star office

1998-12-10 Thread surak
Do a `dpkg -S libXt.so.6` -- does xlib6g and/or xlib6 show up? You should probably install both to keep compatibility in case either program depends on the older xlib6 package contents and also to make sure newer programs dependent upon the xlib6g contents will be able to find it. Hope that

Installing netscape

1998-11-14 Thread Richard L Lyon
Hi all, As a new user I have managed to install Debian 2 with relatively little fuss. The only problem I have struck is installing netscape navigator 4.5. When I try an run this program it fails with the message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' running ldconfig -v shows that a link

Problems when installing netscape 4.05 (bo) debs on a bo system.

1998-06-20 Thread Shaul
Isn't *bo*.deb means that they can be installed on a bo system ? If so, why is communicator4-smotif_4.05-0bo0.11_i386.deb depends on ldso (= 1.9.7-0) ? My bo has only 1.8.10-2. Or do I completly missed something ? Thank you. Script started on Sat Jun 20 01:37:21 1998 rakefet# dpkg -i

Re: Installing netscape 4 on Debian 1.3.1

1998-06-16 Thread Shaul
There used to be a package netscape4_4.0-7.deb (for example on ftp.linux.it/pub/Debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web/netscape4_4.0-7.de b) which could install netscape4 on Debian 1.3.1. Is there any way that I can get it (or something else that can do the same thing) ? -- To

Installing netscape 3.04

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Kuiper
I downloaded the Netscape-3.04 installer from http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape3.html The download was transparent, that is, my current netscape (3.01) did not ask me where to put it. I assumed that it was put somewhere where dselect would find it. I then

Re: Installing netscape 3.04

1998-06-15 Thread joost
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tom Kuiper wrote: I downloaded the Netscape-3.04 installer from http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape3.html The download was transparent, that is, my current netscape (3.01) did not ask me where to put it. I assumed that it was

Installing Netscape

1998-01-24 Thread elliston
I downloaded Netscape from the netscape site and then installed it using dselect and the Debian installation package. Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by a bus error. It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of the buttons don't have

Re: Installing Netscape

1998-01-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by a bus error. It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of the buttons don't have images. Which X server are you running? I had problems running the

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-17 Thread Brian C. White
How does one make slight modifications to a debian package? What is a debian package? Is it really just a gzipped, tarred file? What are the important components? You can grab the package source and edit it from there. Please DON'T do this, though. I try to keep up and a short note to me

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-16 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to install using dpkg? This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then grabbed the 3.0b6

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-16 Thread Derek Lee
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to install using dpkg? This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then grabbed the 3.0b6

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-15 Thread Brian C. White
I tried to use dpkg to install Netscape the _right_ way, and it expects a netscape 3.0b4 file to be in /tmp; here is what dpkg says when I try dpkg -i using the 1.1 cdrom: You'll need to pick up the 3.0b6 version from ftp.debian.org. Anyway, I looked on the Netscape ftp archive last night

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-15 Thread Joey Hess
Anyway, I looked on the Netscape ftp archive last night and they now have 3.0b5, 3.0b6, and 3.0b7 _only_ on their site, not b4. Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to install using dpkg?

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-15 Thread Pablo Bianucci
Hi Ken! On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to install using dpkg? This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then grabbed the

Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-14 Thread Ken Gaugler
Hello; I have been getting lots of warning messages about the nls directory and about XKeysymDB using a binary of 2.02 I stole from my Slackware system, with no preparation other than sticking the binary in /usr/X11R6/bin. I tried to use dpkg to install Netscape the _right_ way, and it expects a