Re:Thanks re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> I am an idiot when it comes to computers. I wish I would have grown up with a > computer "in my hip pocket" like so many out there have today. Nahh, don't worry, it's a matter of practice. I wish I grew up with a computer in my hit pocket toobut unfortunately, I didnt. And my computer I hav

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Jim Crumley
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:06:49PM -0600, KTB wrote: > I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error message > saying the > file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I have to download the file > while signed > > in as root? I was in root during the attempt at installati

Re:Thanks re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread KTB
Mark Phillips wrote: > > > It takes a while to get the hang of things, but you'll get there. > Have you had another go at getting X to work. It sounded before like > you were almost there. (You'll need to get X working before netscape > will work.) > I am an idiot when it comes to computers.

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Mark Phillips
> I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error > message saying the file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I > have to download the file while signed in as root? No you don't have to, though I you can if you want. > I was in root during the attempt at installation. I w

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > I suspect that the Communicator file has a permissions issue. Do an > ls -l > in the directory where the file is and let us see the line pertaining to > Communicator. > > Also, you might try to su to root to move the

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error message > saying the file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I have to > download the file while signed in as root? I was in root during the > attempt at installation. I was not in root durin

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread KTB
I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error message saying the file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I have to download the file while signed in as root? I was in root during the attempt at installation. I was not in root during the download. I looked the file wa

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok. Here is what you need to do: 1. Download the installer and dependancy packages for Netscape. 2. Download Netscape communicator 4.,5 from Netscape website. 3. Place the actual netscape source code (13M or so) into /tmp 4. WITHOUT rebooting (reboot cleasn your /tmp directory) run dselect and inst

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread debian
TED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 22 December 1998 12:41 Subject: Loosing communicator file >Well I never could get the communicator 4.5 file moved. I decided to >download from /tmp to see if the download would end up in the /tmp >directory and it did. I decided

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi Kent, > Well I never could get the communicator 4.5 file moved. I decided to > download from /tmp to see if the download would end up in the /tmp > directory and it did. I decided to install it later and went into > windows to check my mail and when I came back to install the file was > gone.

Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread KTB
Well I never could get the communicator 4.5 file moved. I decided to download from /tmp to see if the download would end up in the /tmp directory and it did. I decided to install it later and went into windows to check my mail and when I came back to install the file was gone. Is this a common t