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Re: installing communicator



Cam Ellison wrote:
> 
> Eric Richardson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install
> > communicator 4.76.
> > I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif
> > ...
> >
> > How do I apt-get it?
> >
> > apt-get install communicator???
> >
> Unless things have changed, what you have there is the installer. You
> need to get the application itself from Netscape, first, then use
> apt-get as you suggest.  I don't remember whether you're supposed to put
> the Netscape tarball in some specific place, but suspect that the
> installer will track it down.

I didn't know there was a page that lists the packages,in this case for
stable.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Click on stable then web software and see that the name is communicator
which is a meta package which I assume will install everything it needs
since apt is cool.
eric :-)



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