Newbie: Netscape woes
Have you ever felt
like you were the butt of some cosmic joke that everyone else was in on but you?
Oh well. I will hold off on the newbie rant. I am trying to set up a
Linux/Netscape test machine to test web applications. I got Debian up and
running including X and my nic card. TCP/IP seems to be functioning just fine. I
have FTP and Lynx works great. I figured installing Netscape would be a snap. I
went to Netscape's website and downloaded the latest tar, unpackaged and ran the
install. It installed without a hitch. I tried to run it and nothing happened.
No errors. No nothing. As if I never activated the executable. Then I start
reading about a Debian-Netscape package. Great. I try
apt-get install
communicator navigator netscape
It looks on my cd
rom for the packages and reports back that they aren't there. I go out on my
install disk and find NS3. I run the package. It starts to install then asks for
the netscape tar in my /temp dir. I ftp the correct tar to my /temp dir. I run
the package. It seems to install fine. I try to run it. Nothing. Same as before.
Then I start to look into apt and find I don't have it configured to look out on
the net. I un-remark all of the lines and suddenly apt-get is a lot more useful.
I run update and dist-upgrade, then I run install communicator navigator
netscape. It installs the latest version of Communicator.
Cool.
I go to my
applications menu and click on Communicator. Nothing. Nada. Zip. I am going to
shelf the rant/whine and just ask... Does anybody have any idea why Netscape
will not launch? Is it my old non-deb install that I never uninstalled? Please
help! I almost bought a shrink-wrapped redhat box
yesterday...
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