Re: netscape's .deb package
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote:
> Greetings again folx. I've got Debian 2.0 "out of the box", and
> looked on all 4 CD's for netscape. What I found did not seem to
> contain the complete package. I tried to use alien to install
> Netscape4 from my redhat 5.1 CD, but this failed. Netscape's home
> page is built like spaghetti, so I would appreciate someone pointing
> me to where exactly I can get Netscape4 to install.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
IMHO the prefered way to install netscape communicator is:
1. Get the netscape4 .deb-package. It's in contrib:
web/netscape4_4.0-12.deb
2. Get the original archive from netscape, found on their ftp-server:
file communicator-v406-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz in
directory
/pub/communicator/4.06/shipping/english/unix/linux20/base_install
(this is the international version, the U.S. version has a similar name)
3. Place the archive from 2. in /tmp, and let it own by root.root (chown
root.root /tmp/communicator* )
4. Install the .deb with dpkg
dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-12.deb
That's all.
Hubert
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