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Re: netscape 4.0



Greg Vence wrote:
> 
> Lawrence Chim wrote:
> >
> > Randy Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
> > > > It does not work for me.  I found a symlink
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape -->
> > > > .../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
> > >
> > >    Well it mostly works.  It installs netscape properly into
> > > /usr/local/netscape but the symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin is bad.
> > >
> > >    You can fix this by su'ing to root, rm'ing the netscape symlink
> > in
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin, and then creating a new one by doing a "ln -s
> > > /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape".
> > >
> > >    Either that or creating a script to "cd /usr/local/netscape" and
> > then
> > > run netscape there will fix the problem.
> > >
> >
> > So it is a bug and it should be fixed or removed from 1.3.
> >
> If we removed every package that had a bug, what would be left would be
> useless.  Any software of significance has problems.  BTW, did you see
> what 1.2 looked like at 'release' compared to this?
> 
> The fixes are well known and easily administratable on a small machine
> count basis.

I agree the bug it little...but if after installing package, run it and
you see command not found...would it be considered big bug?  May be it
is better than seg. fault.

Lawrence,


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