Re: broken package - netscape
FWIW, Chris built a .deb a while ago, it's on ftp.alphalinux.org and
mirrors.
--rdp
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ron Farrer wrote:
> Gnana (gnana@mips.biochem.mpg.de) wrote:
>
> > when i try to install netscape in Debian 2.2, i get:
> >
> > kabarga:/home/gnana# apt-get install netscape-base-476
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package netscape-base-476 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> > of sources.list
> > E: Package netscape-base-476 has no installation candidate
> > kabarga:/home/gnana#
> >
> > are the packages broken?
>
> I assume that you are trying to install on an Alpha? If so Netscape is
> only available for x86 systems. You can grab the Tru64 UNIX version of
> Netscape in RPM from Compaq (which include the libs needed to run it)
> and use alien to convert it to a deb. Otherwise you could try a recent
> mozilla (NOT the one in Debian for Alphas) and try building it
> yourself. Hopefully this will be fixed sometimes soon. If you need
> help, let me know.
>
> HTH,
> Ron
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Rich Payne
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