Re: netscape 4.6
Subject: Re: netscape 4.6
Date: Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:54:17PM -0500
In reply to:Brian Servis
Quoting Brian Servis(servis@purdue.edu):
> *- On 6 Jun, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6"
> >
> > Subject: Re: netscape 4.6
> > Date: Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -0500
> >
> > In reply to:Brian Servis
> >
> > Quoting Brian Servis(servis@purdue.edu):
> >> *- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6"
> >> > Serge Gavrilov wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello!
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system
> >> >> exists somewhere?
> >> >
> >> > in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also
> >> > had to found a way. i decided to download the tarball from netscape and
> >> > to use the debian-installer.
> >> >
> >>
> >> The communicator/netscape v4.6 as well as X 3.3.3.1 and a few other
> >> newer debs for slink can be found at, http://ftp.netgod.net/x, or add
> >> the line below to your sources.list file for apt. This is a Debian
> >> developers site, they are built from the potato sources against a slink
> >> system, so they are safe.
> >>
> >> deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brian
> >
> > I tried to install, with apt & dselect, communicator/v4.6 from your
> > site but kept running into a problem with netscape-base-4 (>=10). I
> > can't find that version on your site, in potato or in Slink.
> >
>
> Just a note that it is not my site. I am just recommending it.
>
> You are right, the netscape-base-4_14.deb is no where to be found for
> slink libc(I have sent a note off to netgod to see if he can put it up
> on his site). I have put a copy that I built from the source at:
> http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis/netscape-base-4_14_i386.deb.
> Before you install this though you will need to install the libwww-perl
> and liburi-perl packages from unstable(it would be great if they were
> in the above archive as well), they do not need libc6(>=2.1) so this is
> not a problem. The easiest way to install them is to use dpkg on one
> line:
>
> dpkg -i liburi-perl_1.01-1.deb libwww-perl_5.42-1.deb netscape-base-4_14_i386.deb
>
> After that use apt/dselect or whatever to install the rest of the
> packages you need from http://ftp.netgod.net/x/.
>
> Sorry for the confusion,
>
Thanks Brian. Thought that I had really lost it as everyone else had
got it working. My Slink (small spud) system just required it.
Thanks for your note and, of course, your efforts.
Regards
Wayne
--
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down the system for days.
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>
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