Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's
*- On 22 Jun, Tom Pfeifer wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's"
> Arcady Genkin wrote:
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape
>> browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package?
>>
>> As far as I found out, versions >=4.5 can be found in unstable, right?
>> Can there be any problem because Slink has glibc-2.0, and potato --
>> 2.1?
>>
>> Also, is there a browser-only 4.6?
>>
[good apt-get advice]
>
> The 4.6 version of Netscape is only in potato (unstable) and requires
> the 2.1 version of libc6, which is also only in potato. If you're not
> otherwise planning on upgrading to potato at this time, you would
> probably be best off to stick with Netscape 4.5 for now. I've had them
> both installed and didn't notice much, if any, difference in
> functionality - and version 4.5 running on slink is likely to be more
> stable.
>
There are packages for netscape 4.6 at http://ftp.netgod.net/x built
against slink. I think you still have to get the netscape-base-4_14
from the contrib/web section of unstable(it is not dependent on
libc6>=2.1). Just install that package by hand with dpkg and then add
'deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/' to your sources.list file and do as Tom
described.
--
Brian
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