Re: Netscape rpm won't install?

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ron Farrer <rbf@farrer.net> writes:

> I tried to install the resently released netscape rpm and here is what
> happens:
> 
> # rpm -i netscape-4.7-1.alpha.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	/bin/sh   is needed by netscape-4.7-1

rpm isn't really supposed to be used directly, but rather as a tool
for converting rpms to debs. But that doesn't work all the time...

A simple and clean way to install it is:

Open the rpm file with mc. You'll find a tarball in
usr/local/netscape. Open that, too, and copy it's contents to
/usr/local/stow/netscape-4.7. Have a look at the POSTIN script, at the
bottom, it sets some links and touches a file. Do this manually in the
unpacked tree. Then run stow -t / netscape-4.7, and it will make links
at the real places into the tree. You can then easily uninstall with
stow -D.

	Falk