Re: Whiney little request
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote:
> P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I
> encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else
> have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told
> me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory.
> Does this sound familar to anybody? In anycase, netscape did not install
> so I picked it up from the netscape website via lynx.
The netscape package that comes with debian is only an installer/wrapper.
Before you install it, you need to have the netscape tarball in /tmp (or
$TEMPDIR).
Besides installing the netscape binaries in the right places and
registering it to the package management system, the debian package also
provides a wrapper for netscape to ensure that it doesn't crash because of
version conflicts with your system libraries.
Cheers,
Joost
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