Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread Amien Salie
Peace be with you. Thanx very much for the info :) I plan to update to Netscape 4.74 soon and will be watching out for these probs and using your suggested solutions. Thanx once again for sharing this with us. I hope we all can help one another by posting, not only problems we want solved, but s

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, RJS II wrote: > All is fine, Netscape shows version 4.74 and all plugins work. >Unfortunately, the updater still says that I have to update these >packages. A glitch? I guess the updater checks the RPM database, and in there things may still be bad. Try rpm --rebuildd

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread Harry Flaxman
Patti Wavinak wrote: > > I downloaded Netscape 4.74 gzip compressed Communicator tar archive. I > then uncompressed and extracted the tar file and ran ./ns-install. It > showed me which directory it was installing this in and per instructions > I then ran "cd the_directory_I_just_installed_to ./n

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread Anthony
Do it the easy way and just use rpms. Mandrake has them on their FTP sites. However if you want to use the gzip version, try "cd /the/directory/of_netscape" and then "./netscape". > I downloaded Netscape 4.74 gzip compressed Communicator tar archive. I > then uncompressed and extracted the tar

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread RJS II
Hi, If you are running Mandrake 7.1, this is how I solved it. I got the three rpms from ftp. I then used DrakConf and Kpackage to force the upgrade. It still says that I need to install these when I check the updater but it comes up 4.74 HTH, Rob Saul Patti Wavinak wrote: > I downloaded Ne

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-06 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Patti Wavinak wrote: > > I downloaded Netscape 4.74 gzip compressed Communicator tar archive. I > then uncompressed and extracted the tar file and ran ./ns-install. It > showed me which directory it was installing this in and per instructions > I then ran "cd the_directory_I_just_installed_to ./n

[newbie] Netscape 4.74

2000-08-04 Thread RJS II
Hi, An interesting point to whomever: I tried to update (using DrakConf) to Netscape 4.74 This turned out to be a royal pain. First, I had conflict problems (I use 7.1). Ok, I then did what I have had to do before and Gftp'ed the three files (Common, Communicator and N