Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's
Brian Servis wrote:
> *- 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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I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I got:
ollollo:/home/jason# dpkg -i netscape-base-4_14.deb
(Reading database ... 46865 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace netscape-base-4 5 (using netscape-base-4_14.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement netscape-base-4 ...
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background)
Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netscape-base-4:
netscape-base-4 depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.0.7.19981211-6.
netscape-base-4 depends on liburi-perl; however:
Package liburi-perl is not installed.
dpkg: error processing netscape-base-4 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
netscape-base-4
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