Re: Netscape Woes
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends
right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about
right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get
everything you can things IMHO just work better that way.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: kmself@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:46:00 -0800
>on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0600, ktb (x.y.f@home.com)
wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:12:22AM -0500, Howell Caton wrote:
>> >
>> > As a complete newbie, I had to install linux 2.2 several
times before I got
>> > all the kinks worked out. Each time I downloaded netscape
2.76 from
>> > ftp.netscape.com. I'd get the error message
"libstdc++=libc6.1-1.so.2
>> > not available". I solved that by linking it to
libstdc++=libc6.1-2.so.3,
>> > which is probably not relevant, but I don't know for sure.
Anyway, it
>> > worked.
>> >
>> > The last time I re-installed, I used netscape 3.? from the
Debian
>> > distribution. It worked, but was hopelessly outdated. So I
downloaded
>> > 4.76 again and installed it over my 3.? installation. When I
ran it, I got
>> > a "bus error" message. Thinking that some files from my 3.?
version
>> > wer still around causing incompatibitites with 4.76 stuff, I
ripped
>> > everything out
>> > and re-installed 4.76. I still got the "bus error" message.
>> >
>> > I don't have a clue about how to troubleshoot this problem.
Can anyone
>> > help?
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>>
>> First I don't know why you did the multiple installs of debian.
>> Sometimes it is warranted but for the most part you can fix
problems
>> without reboots and reinstalling. I'm sure you gained some
valuable
>> install experience though.
>
>My experience has been that three installs of a new distro are
often
>warrented: once to see how it works, twice to try to get it
right,
>thrice to get it right. And yes, it's a good way to learn. Best
thing
>to do is to keep the install to a minimum, allowing you to cycle
through
>the sequence quickly. I tend to like to play extensively with
>partitioning and such. I almost always find I did something that
I'd
>prefer to have differently.
>
>> As to your current dilemma I would suggest you make life easy
for
>> yourself and use "apt-get." I would clean out the netscape
stuff you
>> already have and "apt-get install netscape-smotif-476"
>
>Ditto.
>
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