Re: Communicator 4.72

["Timothy C. Phan" <tphan@iqrinc.com>]

Hi,

  The netscape-base-4 requires libc5 stuff.

Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> shaleh@valinux.com (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote:
> >On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> >>   Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install
> >>   Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff.  I am
> >>   going to get the tar ball and install it.
> >>
> >>   Looking into the netscape ftp site and there were several
> >>   version:
> >>
> >>   . /pub/communicator/english/4.72/unix/unsupported/linux22
> >>   . /pub/communicator/english/4.72/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2
> >
> >the reason we do not ship a libc6 based communicator
> 
> Huh?
> 
> [cjw44@riva ~]$ cat /etc/debian_version
> woody
> [cjw44@riva ~]$ dpkg -p communicator-smotif-472
> Package: communicator-smotif-472
> Priority: optional
> Section: non-free/web
> Installed-Size: 13596
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: netscape4.72
> Version: 4.72-15
> Provides: netscape, www-browser, news-reader, mail-reader,
> communicator-browser-472, netscape-browser-472
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1), libxpm4, xlib6g
> (>= 3.3.5), communicator-base-472, netscape-base-4 (>= 1:4.70-23)
> [...]
> 
> (Though I've no argument with it being unstable; I use the libc5 version
> myself.)
> 
> --
> Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
> 
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