I have been trying to get all three: Emacs, Netscape Navigator, and Apache all working on an X-windows Linux system. I switched from Red Hat to Debian because Apache was not working on my Red Hat system, and rather than try to muddle my way through learning what was wrong, I figured okay, switch to Debian (a friend had installed Debian and Apache worked for him "right out of the box").
I have now become semi-experienced in installing Debian kernels, using dselect and dpkg, and have successfully gotten X-windows, Emacs, and Apache working (and ppp, whew!). However, Netscape Navigator is barfing at me, saying it cannot load libraries. I have twice reinstalled the library it most recently complains about, so the library is not corrupted. I recently spent a day installing kernel 2.0.34 with full X-windows and Emacs and web stuff, and configuring everything the way I want. I downloaded three different Netscape binaries off the Netscape site, all for Linux, in various flavors (4.06 Navigator only, 4.06 Communicator, 4.5x can't- remember-if-it-was-just-Nav-or-Communicator). After gunzipping and de- tarring them and ns-installing them, and trying to run them, they all said they could not load libXpm.so.4 (sigh). Previously, I had installed a smaller (basic) workstation and then added X-windows, and had a similar problem when I gunzipped and de-tarred (and feathered) and installed Netscape: when I tried to run it, it complained it could not load libXt.so.6 ... durn. In both cases, a library of that name was there, so I suspect this is some sort of version-compatibility problem. I feel hopelessly inadequate to the task of getting Slink off the Debian site. Among other problems, I have a 14.4K baud modem, and am totally ignorant about how to select the packages I need. My best strategy has been to take a "larger than needed" set of stuff for a workstation during a kernel-installation process, then delete stuff I don't want. This way, I figure I make sure I'm getting all the details that I need. Also, I can do this only when the temperature is cool; I have no air conditioner, and the installation process crashes when it's too hot. I also cannot afford to buy another CD-ROM at this time; I am standing on the edge of an abyss called "soon to be homeless unless crank the old marketing telephone blitz." So what I want to do is get a Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) that will work with Debian Hamm 2.0.34. Since I make web pages for a living, including making cgi-scripts, I utterly need a working web server and a working browser (sorry, Arena crashes on me all the time) and my favorite text editor = Emacs --- and I need them on the same system! Can someone tell me where to find a Netscape Nav-or-Com for Debian 2.0.34? Thanks muchly, Wyn Snow = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
