Re: broken package - netscape
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:03:20PM +0100, Gnana 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?
Nope, just not there :-) The netscape versions out there are pre-compiled
binaries. AFAIK, there are none for Alpha-Linux and the only Netscape
package that exists is the one released by Compaq (in RPM form) which is
not freely redistributable.
If you want netscape, though, you're welcome to download a deb that
was converted by alien from alphalinux.org. It's the Tru64 version, but
includes the needed libs to allow it to run under Linux.
C
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