Netscape installation info [Re: Whiney little request]

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> writes:

    > Well, since the topic *is* ``Whiney little request'' and
    > wrappers such as this seem the most likely way to integrate
    > commercial software into Debian, is it worth considering a
    > way of specifying how to get needed non-deb files?

    > Something like:

    > Required-nd: netscape.tar.gz Source: netscape.tar.gz
    > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/wherever/netscape.tar.gz

    > would be substantially more intuitive and convenient for
    > the beginner (perhaps the SEUL people would like to think
    > about this?) at the very least.

The description of netscape3 in the Packages file does state how
and where to get the netscape tar file, but the description for
netscape4 doesn't.  From netscape3:

   Netscape Communications Corporation does not allow redistribution of
   their software.  Therefore, this package requires the user to fetch
   the netscape archive separately and place it in the directory pointed
   to by the TMPDIR environment variable (or /tmp if TMPDIR not defined)
   before attempting to install this package.  You can get the linux
   packages via anonymous ftp from "archive.netscape.com" as:
      ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/
          netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz

Mike


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