Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:01:17 PST, Alex Chamberlain writes:
>
>Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> * 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".
>>
>
>Doesn't work either:
>
> starfish:~# apt-get install navigator
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package navigator
have you tried the whole apt-mantra?
apt-get update; apt-get install netscape-base-4
worked everytime for me...
cheers,
&rw
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