Jonathan Crowe wrote:
>
> > El Fri, 20 Nov 1998, George Bonser escribió:
> >
> > >Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the
> > >mistake of "upgrading" netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ...
> > >I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I link to it
> > >from, say, /usr/bin, it complains that I have no netscape-real.
> >
>
> I just installed Netscape 4.5 the night before last.
>
> I mounted my contrib cd and copied the whole binary-i386 tree into a
> directory called
> /contrib. I then downloaded comunicator ( 13MB! what the heck is in this
> thing?) and
> put in in /tmp.
> I next mounted the main binary-i386 to /cdrom , told dselect where to find
> main and
> contrib and selected netscape 4.0 from the package listing.
>
> It installed without a hitch and even put netscape on my menus. ( not exactly
> where I
> wanted it but it was easy enough to copy to the spot where I did want it.)
> All in all
> a fairly painless procedure.
>
> Question.... the install script that comes with netscape wants to put in in
> /usr/local/netscape while debian wants to put it in /usr/lib/something.
> Why is
> that? It makes more sense to me to have 3rd party programs in /usr/local or
> even in
> /usr/lpp the way it would be in AIX.
>
> Question2... Netscape runs fine but takes _forever_ to startup. ( well 40 -50
> seconds
> anyway) On the same machine running that other OS the same version on
> netscape loads
> in about 15 seconds. Is there some tweeking that can be done in linux
> somewhere to
> load programs faster on my machine?
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem
Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs
yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg
is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it must install the
things it deals with (*.deb) elsewhere.
Question #2: Alas, Netscape Communicator is a *bloated pig* of a
program.
--
Ed C.
