Re: netscape, slink, bus error
Rick Venable wrote:
>
> > Rick Venable wrote:
> > > I also tried to get netscape via the slink distro at ftp.debian.org, but
> > > the 4.07 package there still lacked the binary, contrary to reports that
> > > "slink has a full netscape package".
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > You need to look harder. :-) The packages holding the NS
> > binaries have '-smotif' or '-dmotif' in their names and are found in
> > non-free/web section. I responded to an earlier question this way:
>
> I did include -smotif binary as one of the packages I selected, and
> still didn't get a binary (although it may have been 4.07, and not 4.5).
00:00am ~$ dpkg -L communicator-smotif-45
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/netscape
/usr/lib/netscape/45
/usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator
/usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/communicator-smotif
/usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/communicator-smotif.real
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the binary.
/usr/lib/netscape/db
/usr/lib/menu
/usr/lib/menu/communicator-smotif-45
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/communicator-smotif-45
> > XNLSPATH isn't the problem (It was only suggested as a
> > possible problem). The locale problem (which I thought was solved a
> > long time ago - did you recently upgrade to slink?) occurs because of
> > a missing /usr/lib/X11/locale directory. Check this directory. If
> > this isn't there (or its empty, or its a symlink) you can get this
> > locale directory from the xlib6g (part of X11) package (3.3.2.3a-8.1).
> > Confirm by checking for the existence of */locale/C/XLC_LOCALE (this,
> > IIRC, is what NS is looking for).
>
> Thanks. I have been suspecting that the locale problem was a false
> trail, unrelated to the bus error. I think some of my problems may be
> due to the local archive I used for my initial installation, which was
> loosely based on early slink (unstable). I'm considering wiping my boot
> partition and starting over.
That may be the only way. Debian has come a long way, but the ideal of never
needing to reinstall isn't quite there yet. I decided awhile back to install
fresh hamm to start over because of other problems. Since then though, the
'automatic update' accomplished by ftp upgrade using dselect/apt has worked well
enough that I doubt I'll need to install fresh with either slink or potato.
--
Ed C.
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