Re: Trying to fix a mistake in upgrading Netscape...
Curt Howland wrote:
>
> 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.
Hmm. I use Communicator 4.03 with libc5. Is this a new version?
> 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
Did you have the netscape...tar to install in your /tmp directory? If I
remember right that is where it must be to use the .deb install script.
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