On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 18 Jan, this message from Paul F. Pearson echoed through cyberspace: > > When I try to install Netscape with dselect, it says that Netscape relies > > on a statically linked Motif library which "is not available." Is > > something wrong with how I have may apt-sources setup? > > Yeah, only the 'helper' packages for Netscape are available for > Debian/PPC, the 'real stuff' isn't. I've had positive experiences with > the last available binary RPM from LinuxPPC, alien'ized for Debian. > There was one quirk with a missing library, but a clever symlink solved > that problem. Let me know when you can't find the RPM, I'll put it up > somewhere.
That answers "the other part" of my confusion - why is Netscape "available" (sort of) when it doesn't work? IMNSHO, if it's broke, then don't let it be an option. > Now, as others have stated already, whether you really want Netscape or > not is your choice. After all, the above version is at something like > 4.72 - full of bugs and even security holes. I'm using it myself still, > as I haven't yet taken the time to search for and configure decently a > replacement. I was looking for Netscape for familiararity. Besides, I don't run KDE or GNOME, and I thongt Konqueror and that other one mentioned in another message, required one of those desktop managers. I may try KDE; I may just try Konqueror w/o KDE; I may try GNOME again (this time I'll RTFM); I may try that other WWW browser w/o GNOME. I just *love* choices! Thanks a whole lot! -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)
