Re: Communicator Installation
>To: "KTB ." <prairie37@hotmail.com>
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Communicator Installation
>Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:46:43 +1030
>From: Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>
>
>> I believe I did this already by going through dselect. Selecting the
>> Netscape4 install program, after copying the
communicator-v45...tar.gz
>> file to /tmp. That didn't work. What you are sugesting seems to be
the
>> same except in my case dselect used dpkg. If I am not correct in
this
>> please let me know.
>
>I think you posted to the list before that you got an error:
>
>gzip:stdin:unexpected end of file
>tar: unexpected EOF on archive file
>tar: Child returned status 1
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
>This is most likely because the communicator file you downloaded was
>corrupted. That is, it wasn't downloaded properly.
>
>I recommend that you try downloading it again with the "ncftp" command.
>You need to install the ncftp package, then do
> ncftp ftp.netscape.com
>
>then cd to the appropriate directory and download the communicator
>file again. Ncftp tends to be quite good for downloading.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mark.
>
>P.S. I'm about to go on holidays, so you will have to rely on others on
>the list to help you further.
>
D'jinnie set up Ncftp and downloaded the first Communicator file I
downloaded. I got errors then too. I will see if I can figure it out
and do it all again.
Thanks,
Have a nice holiday!
Kent
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