On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote: > P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I > encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else > have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told > me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory. > Does this sound familar to anybody? In anycase, netscape did not > install > so I picked it up from the netscape website via lynx.
The netscape package that comes with debian is only an installer/wrapper. Before you install it, you need to have the netscape tarball in /tmp (or $TEMPDIR). Besides installing the netscape binaries in the right places and registering it to the package management system, the debian package also provides a wrapper for netscape to ensure that it doesn't crash because of version conflicts with your system libraries. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
