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Re: Newbie Question - Debianizing Netscape



No need to muck about with RPM's, just 'apt-get install navigator' or 'apt-get
install communicator' for Netscape 4.x or 'apt-get install mozilla' for Mozilla
M18 (basically the same as Netscape 6).  You'll be set up.

-Rob

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:20:42PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install Netscape on my newly installed potato . I've downloaded the rpm and tried to do "alien -d -k -c  rpm-name" but it complains :
> 
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> 
>  So I downloaded the latest version of rpm itself (rpm-4.0.1-0.20.i386.rpm) and I am up against the same problem. Then I tried to install the rpm-4 using rpm-3 and I get the same complaint. I am stuck now .  I would't wan't to install from a tar ball . Is there another way out short of building my own deb from source ?
> 
>  Sincerely 
>  Balbir Thomas
> 
> 
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