Re: Netscape for Slink
That version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) is fully packaged for slink
and should be installable. The netscape-base-4 package is in the contrib
section, while the rest of the packages are in non-free.
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure apt-get is looking in
all 3 sections (main, contrib, and non-free) of the slink (stable)
distribution. In other words, you need a line like this in that file:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
Once you have the /etc/apt/sources.list file set up correctly, apt-get
will automatically download and install all dependencies, although there
are also some optional packages like spell checker, help, and java. On
my slink install, I have the following Netscape Communicator 4.5
packages installed:
communicator-base-45
communicator-nethelp-45
communicator-smotif-45
communicator-spellchk-45
netscape-base-4
netscape-base-45
netscape-java-45
Tom
howard mann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Slink ( kernel 2.2.12 ) that I obtained as a box
> set from valinux.com. The installation was fine.
>
> I attempted to install communicator-smotif-45 using apt-get. This failed
> due to an unmet dependency related to " netscape-base-4" which was not
> "installable."
>
> Which version of Communicator would you recommend that I install ? I do
> not want to install a version that requires glibc - 2.1 just yet. I
> want to get used to Slink first :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Howard Mann
> http://www.newbielinux.com
> Online Troubleshooting Resources:HOWTO
> (http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html)
>
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