Re: Netscape instability (hangs, crashes); is netscape4-4.0_12 installer compatible with 4.05?

[Pann McCuaig <pann@ssc.com>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:

> I tried installing 4.5 using the packages from slink(?), but they depend
> on the slink version of libc6 and who knows what else, which I don't want to 
> mess with before slink is deemed stable.

For what it's worth, I've installed those packages on several
(otherwise) hamm systems without any problems, either with the install
or with running netscape afterwards.

First I installed libc6 and all the packages with the same version
number as libc6 by pointing to frozen (slink) in /etc/apt/sources.list
and executing:

apt-get update
apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev libc6-doc locales timezones

Then I ftp'ed the netscape and navigator packages and installed manually
with dpkg (because it wasn't clear what to ask apt to install):

dpkg -i dpkg-awk_0.7.1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb
dpkg -i netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-java-45_4.5-1.deb
dpkg -i navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb navigator-smotif-45_4.5-1.deb
dpkg -i navigator-nethelp-45_4.5-1.deb

(dpkg-awk showed up as a dependency somewhere along the way, I forget
exactly where)

YMMV.

Luck,
-- 
your man pann