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Re: Netscape



"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 11:01:05PM +0000, hypnos wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Don Cavaiani wrote:
> >
> > > To get Netscape to work on X, must I download a part of it directly from
> > > the Netscape web site?
> >
> > something about netscape's licensing (i think)
> > prohibits it from being distributed with debian,
> > so you have to download the actual netscape archive
> > file from their web/ftp site. there's an installer
> > package, however, in debian.  download the file from
> > netscape's site, put it in /tmp and run the installer,
> > it should take care of it.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > hypnos              <mailto:hypnos@m-net.arbornet.org>
> 
> I don't think that's correct.  

What hypnos wrote is correct.  The Debian Netscape installer is called
'netscape4' you do install the tar ball while in /tmp.    

>Simply doing:
> 
> $ apt-get install communicator-smotif-47

The method Eric presented I haven't got around to trying yet.  Looks a
lot simpler than using 'netscape4' though:)
kent


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