Re: how to install slink netscape?

["Markus M. Schneider" <Schneider@Informatik.UniBw-Muenchen.De>]

Hi Eric,

> I recently upgraded
> to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package
> (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2).  So I ended up
> removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package) and
> installing netscape-base-45b2, netscape-base-4 (since it is necessary for
> installing netscape-base-45b2), netscape-java-whatever, and plugger.  All
> seemed to go fine and I was very pleased.  I went under the assumption
> that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is
> this wrong?  When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there.  I don't have
> a /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (which I think should probably be a link to
> /usr/lib/netscape/45b2/wrapper or something).  All I seem to have are the
> wrappers...no real netscape binaries.

I additionally had to install communicator-base-45 and
communicator-smotif-45. The corresponding dependencies seam to be
missing.

Hope this will help You,

Markus.