Re: Netscape (Newbie alert)
Jan Muszynski wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Netscape and have run into a small problem.
> First what I've accomplished so far:
>
> 1: downloaded from Netscape - finally found out that I had to rename
> package to include glibc as part of name before install would work.
> 2: First time I tried to run got error -
> can't load libXpm.so.4 - archives told me to load xpm4.7 package
> 3: next error - can't load libg++.so.27 - archives again - this time
> load libg++27 package
>
> (why weren't 2 and 3 picked up as dependencies by the installer?)
Did you install the netscape installer via dselect?
>
> 4: Now I'm stuck - I try to run Netscape (from an xterm so I can see
> the error) and I get back 'Bus error'. Looked through archives, but
> not much help there, some vague (and very old) info. Can someone
> please help me get this to run.
I can't help here...sorry
>
> Next question - (just point me in the right direction on this)
> autodial - can it be done, if so how. (pon, poff, and wvdial are all
> working, although I have to adjust permissions for pon since
> currently it only works from root - don't know about wvdial I only
> tried it once from root, and it worked).
look at dial-on-demand (diald)?
>
> Third (and last for the moment). Is there any way I can get to the
> virtual terminals (alt-Fx) from inside Xwindow?
type ctrl-alt-fx
HTH
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