Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

[Mark Phillips <mark@maths.flinders.edu.au>]

>On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
>
>> Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using
>> one of the newer binaries?  Do I need to tweak anything to get it to
>> install using dpkg?
>
>This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then
>grabbed the 3.0b6 installer (source form) from ftp.debian.org (under the
>rex hierarchy) and slightly modified it to use the 3.0b7 package (I don't
>remember exactly the modifications, they were slight).
>Then it worked, and it didn't seem to break anything. I'll tell you when I
>upgrade Netscape again! <g>

How does one make "slight modifications" to a debian package?  What is
a debian package?  Is it really just a gzipped, tarred file?  What are
the important components?

Thanks,

Mark.