Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Vincent Murphy wrote:
> 
> >       The v4 installer assumes it is installing the libc5 version of NS, thus
> > it has dependancies on the libc5 package.  We now have libc6 versions of
> > NS, but there hasn't yet been an update to these Deb installers.  So you
> > did what you had to do (install NS without the Deb installer).  I did
> 
> What exactly is the rationale behind the deb installer? Whats wrong with putting
> everything in /usr/local/netscape?
> 
> --vinny


	Well, if it worked (and it does work for the libc5 version of NS), it
would make installing NS easier for a newbie.  The only problem is
simply the recent release of a new version of NS and an ongoing
'development' release of NS linked against libc6.  The deb installers
haven't been improved to deal with these recent additions/changes.  Once
this update is done though, it would be better to use deb installers
then installing manually.  Since /usr/local is dedicated to locally
installed software (outside of the scope of dpkg), there isn't anything
*wrong* with installing NS manually to /usr/local.


-- 
Ed C.