Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
On 05 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works
> > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape
> > > packages for 4.75. Anyone know why?
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato.
> > I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not
> > yielded 4.73.
>
> i found upgrading from slink to potato yielded many many non upgraded
> packages, the system would say it is up to date but if i did a manual
> install (xchat comes to mind) apt-get install <program> apt would
> realize that the program is outdated and upgrade it. odd!! happened on
> every machine i upgraded.
>
> nate
>
Thanks for reply. Now the question is, which netscape package(s) should
I ask for? When I upgraded via proposed-updates I got some version of
netscape-base4.75 (can't remember which), but there are numerous
netscape packages on the site and I don't know which to tell apt-get to
fetch.
Anthony
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