Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Alex Chamberlain (octopus@aracnet.com) [010121 03:49]:
> I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato.  I
> have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect,
> but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4;
> netscape-base-4 does not appear to be available".  I've searched high
> and low on ftp.debian.org for netscape-base-4.dpkg or anything like
> it.  Will someone let me in on the secret?

If you just want to install the browser, "apt-get install navigator"
will do it (and grab whatever else it needs). For the entire "suite",
type "apt-get install communicator".

Since you mention using dselect, just select the package you want
instead of picking the "-base" packages.

Regards
Hall