Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work
Peter,
When you installed if you did not add an sources to
your system on the install, go to /etc/apt and with vi
do a vi sources.list. This will open the
sources.list in a text editor. In the sources.list you
will see lines that start with the # space then
deb-ftp, or # space deb-src. For those lines move the
cursor to that line and then press the x key twice,
that will delete the # and the space. Do that on
every line, when your done press the Esc key then type
:wq that will save the changes that you just made. Now
type apt-get install communicator. That will download
teh Netscape files and install them. Netscape is
called a non-free program and does not come on the
cd's.
Hope this isn't to confusing and it helps.
Don
--- Peter Christensen <christensen@gtcinternet.com>
wrote:
> I'm so frustrated with Windows frequently "freezing
> up" that I'd really
> like to get Linux to work on my machine. I bought a
> release of Debian
> about two years ago from Cheap*Bytes. The disks say
> that it's release
> 2.1, though when I was installing it I noticed a
> message that seemed to
> imply that I had Debian 2.0.34. (But I don't
> remember the exact
> message, unfortunately.) I ended up not using Linux
> back then because I
> had a "Winmodem" on my machine. Now that I have an
> external USRobotics
> modem I'm trying Linux again.
>
> The installation went fine, and I was able to dial
> my ISP using "PON"
> In the windows manager FVWM95 there's a button on
> the taskbar for
> Netscape. Nothing happened when I clicked on it.
> This also happened
> for the Files, Editor, and Xview buttons. But the
> Xterm, Xcalc, Kill,
> and Ghostview buttons do work.
>
> I installed Netscape from my Netscape 4.75 CD, using
> the instructions
> that came with the CD. (copy the .tar file, issue
> the tar -xvf command,
> then run ns-install.) I assume everything went OK
> since there were no
> error messages. But I still couldn't start
> Netscape!
>
> Where did I go wrong? Was it a mistake to buy
> Debian from Cheap*Bytes?
> Do I just need a newer release? Is Netscape
> normally included with the
> Debian release?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Christensen
>
>
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