Trying to fix a mistake in upgrading Netscape...

[howland@Priss.com (Curt Howland)]

Good afternoon.

I tried to install Netscape Communicator, and received the
error that it needed libc6, which I do not have. So I went
back to use the old netscape 3.01 (i think) that I had been
using, but it seems to have been partially purged.

I say partially, because when I went to install v3.04, I
got the following message:

ian# dpkg -i netscape_3.01-4.deb  
(Reading database ... 19956 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netscape (from netscape_3.01-4.deb) ...
- This release is for a different version of netscape than the one installed.
  Please 'dpkg --purge netscape netscape-beta' and reinstall this package.
  You will need the original 3.01 source archive from Netscape to do
  this.  Place the source archive in /tmp.
dpkg: error processing netscape_3.01-4.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netscape_3.01-4.deb

So, I tried getting the old copy, as below,

ian# cp ~howland/netscape-v301-export_x86-unknown-linux-elf_tar.gz .
ian# dpkg --purge netscape netscape-beta
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove netscape which isn't installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove netscape-beta which isn't installed.

Any ideas? Any way to tell what version of Netscape had been installed,
just incase I have 3.02 or some such? Maybe I should just try purging
.02 and .03 as well, and maybe get lucky...

Curt-

ps: replies to email, please, as I have been unable to keep up
with the list when subscribed...


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