Thanks to everyone who replied and for all the great advice. I decided
to go
with the rpm install and am glad of it. ...No pain, no strain. I am
typing this message from
communicator so needless to say it worked w/o a hitch; even have it set
up
to bypass the m$ proxy server so it will now hit the net as well.
Thanks again for all the help.
Sean
Michael Jinks wrote:
> Sean Winters wrote:
> > Obviously it is gzip'd, but when I attempt
> > to run gzip -d [filename] a messages appears stating something about
a
> > core; this is presumably not a Good Thing.
>
> Whoah. Well, my version of gzip does not dump core; from this I
> conclude that one of two things must be true:
>
> 1. You have a different, flawed version of gzip. I consider this
> unlikely since you got it off of the RH cd (right?)
>
> 2. You have a damaged Netscape file, or one which is not in a format
> that gzip understands. If the file you got is a .gz file, my bet is
> that when you downloaded Netscape, something went wrong somewhere and
> it's making gzip crash when it tries to uncompress. Maybe try
> downloading again?
>
> What is the specific error you're getting? It might help to know.
>
> >
> > Is there any resource I can hit to get information on how to
accomplish
> > program compiles and installation???
>
> Nah, we all just absorb this stuff from rocks. ;)
>
> Okay, that was a minor fib. I don't know of a specific resource for
> what you want, but here are a couple of tips.
>
> First off, learn to love the LDP, or Linux Documentation Project.
They
> are linked from www.linux.org, another wonderful web site. If you're
> like me, you will quickly come to expect most of your Linux
> documentation to come from the web, not books, and a lot of it lives
> here.
>
> At the LDP are lots of things; there's the HOWTO index (lots of little
> and not-so-little primers on doing specific tasks in Linux, VERY
> educational), and also the System Administrator's Guide and Network
> Administrator's Guide. Those are books which take up where the
install
> guide leaves off. Take a look at their tables of contents NOW, and
> again the next time you're stumped on something. Even if your Linux
box
> isn't classically network-connected, Linux is such a network-dependend
> beast (even internal processes communicate with each other over
TCP/IP),
> that the NAG is worth at least a passing familiarity. My guess though
> is that most of your time will probably be spent with the SAG.
>
> WRT the specifics of installing programs, there are a few things to
> know. The version of Netscape that you've downloaded is not an .rpm
> file, but the RPM system is still worth taking some time out to learn.
> If you don't already know this, Redhat Package Manager is a system for
> keeping up with installed software on a Linux box (it can be installed
> on a non-Redhat machine, BTW). Usint the rpm command, you can
install,
> query, and de-install LOTS of software from a single command line.
Read
> the man page for rpm; it confused the daylights out of me when I first
> started to learn it, so if you're a moron like me then come on back
when
> you have trouble.
>
> As RedHat gets more popular, a lot more packages are becoming
available
> in the RPM format. Many of them are stored at the RedHat ftp site in
> their /pub/contrib directory, and I believe that Netscape has recently
> been added to that list. (It wasn't on the CD because, as of the time
> RH5 was released, Netscape wasn't yet under the GPL.) The specific
> location might be off (their ftp site is quite large and not always
> intuitively organized), but I'm pretty sure it's there.
>
> For the many packages that do not come in rpm format, the .gz file
that
> you download will usually contain a README file describing the
necessary
> steps for installation. I recommend against running programs called
> 'install' or 'setup' in the Linux world unless you've first read some
> documentation telling you what to expect, since there are often
> preliminary steps before you can install a particular package.
>
> Hope this helps. I'm going to shut up now and let you go play. Good
> luck!
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