On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > > One of the joys of getting X up is that you'll get Netscape > > up and then you'll be able to use DejaNews to answer every question under > > the Sun! > > Switching to a Cyrrus Logic card solved the major problem. Now I only have > a hand full of little ones :-) > First, when I try and install the netscape package, I get: > > (Reading database ... 13477 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace netscape (using netscape-2.01-2.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement netscape ... > Setting up netscape ... > ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name > /tmp/netscape-v201-export.i486-unknown-linux.tar.[Z|gz] > dpkg: error processing netscape (--install): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > netscape
You get it from netscape... go to ftpX.netscape.com where X is a number... ie try ftp2.netscape.com. > I realize that I need to get this archive before I can do the > installation. Where do I find this beast? How come the installation > doesn't point me to it? I looked in contrib, non-free, etc... and didn't > find anything. > > > I think in addition to the packages you mentioned, you'll want to get > > xpm4.7 (for fvwm2 -- I think you want fvwm2 rather than fvwm). I also > > find myself always getting xfntpex. > > Fvwm2 installs fine once you install xpm4.7. However, since fvwm2 is not > in the /etc/window-managers file. Shouldn't this file contain all of the > window managers that are available under Debian X? > > > > > Then there's the issue of really doing something with X. What you need > > then > > depends on what you want to do. > > > When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu system? Is > there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start the xserver either > as root or as a user, but I can't seem to do both. Once root cranks up the > xserver, how does a user gain access to the server? copy /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwmrc or /usr/doc/examples/fvwm2/system.fvwmrc to your home dir as .fvwm2rc And then edit it into the ground :) For a real-easy-to-use menu system try the 9menu thing. You actually can type: 9menu hello sync xterm to get a menu with these three commands. > TIA, > > Dwarf > > ------------ -------------- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 > Flexible Software Fax: NONE > Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask -------------- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Error: this signature should not appear. If you see this signature, ...
