"BS" == Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "MD" == Michel Daenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "ACP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BS> I've just got X windows running (limping) on my powerbook. BS> I was using communicator on my Intel laptop and would BS> probably stuck with it (even though it is a *big* memory BS> hog and has some bugs) but it is not packaged for powerpc. MD> What's the problem? I installed communicator-smotif about MD> one month ago. Works like a charm (as far as any MD> Communicator can ;) ACP> I think the problem is the "communicator" _all package, ACP> which depends on 4.73 and conflicts with all other ACP> versions. This is a problem for PPC! After having checked the archives on ftp.debian.org, looking at the contrib and non-free directories for both potato and woody, as far as I can see the only installable versions of Communicator for PowerPC are 4.6 and 4.7 (and maybe 4.08). There are no binaries (-smotif packages) for any of the newer versions (4.72 or 4.73). I filed a bug against version 4.72 (#61794), and never got any response whatsoever. I'm hardly surprised to see that the same problem exists with a later version. File a bug, and make it important! Looking at my own system, I have the following packages installed: ii communicator 4.72-29 Meta package ii communicator-base-47 4.7-14 Communicator base support for v. 4.7 ii communicator-smotif-47 4.7-14 Netscape Communicator 4.7 ii netscape 4.72-29 Meta package ii netscape-base-472 4.72-29 Popular World-Wide-Web browser ii netscape-base-47 4.7-14 4.7 base support for netscape ii netscape-java-47 4.7-14 Netscape Java support for v. 4.7 If I'm missing out on some source for newer Communicator packages, please let me know! Thanks, CMC +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
