netscape crashing (solution!!)

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

thansk to hartmut posting the solution from debian devel i too now have a
working solution.  because it took me a couple times reading through the
message to understand what to do i thought i would repost in case other
people were confused.

this is what you should do if you've been having problems with netscape
crashing a lot and have a glibc2.1 system (crashes for me occurred either
after password authentication or when closing a netscape window):

* clean off all the netscape/navigator/communicator packages from your
  system (use dpkg --purge until they are all gone).

* make sure you have the needed libc5 packages:

  # apt-get install xpm4.7 libg++27

* go to the below url and download the libc5 netscape file:

  ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/supported/linux20_libc5/professional_edition/

* save it to /tmp/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0glibc.tar.gz
  and make sure that it is owned by root:

  # chown root /tmp/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0glibc.tar.gz

* install the debian netscape installer:

  # apt-get install netscape4

now run your new version of netscape and be happy.

hope this helps people and thanks to everyone how pointed me in the right
direction.  i'd been having fairly chronic problems and this seems to have
fixed it completely.

adam.


> From: Mark Mealman <mmealman@concentric.net>
> To: Debian List <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: [TEMP-FIX] Netscape Crashes
> 
> If you've been suffering through Netscape crashes left and right for the
> last few months due to glibc incompatibilities like I have, here seems
> to be a decent work-around.
> 
> Make sure you have xpm4.7 and libg++27 installed, purge the netscape4
> package, download the libc5 version of netscape from ftp.netscape.com.
> Rename that version of netscape to have glibc in it's name(right before
> .tar.gz is the place to put it), then do an apt-get install netscape4.
> 
> 
> Only been using it for a day, but it seems to be a lot more stable on
> Debian than the glibc version.
> 
> -Mark