On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used.
Just thought it might be worthwhile to document a little more precisely some experiences with Netscape 4.7 [not 4.71, as John later corrected]. The following command, or its ftp equivalent, fetches the file in question: wget ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.7/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v47-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz To install it, an approach that works fine for me is: tar xzf it, then cd and ./ns-install; add export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape/ alias netscape=$MOZILLA_HOME/netscape to your environment, and you're "home" :-) free. I tried using the Debian installation method, using .deb's of netscape from netgod.net, back circa March, but for some reason that didn't work for me, so I switched to this non-Debian method. Running slink.
