Hello Alice, to install/run netscape 4.7 from the downloaded tar.gz file you don't need any of the Debian netscape packages. Here are the steps I did to install it on my machine:
1. copy the netscape 4.7 tar.gz file to /tmp 2. unpack the file: cd /tmp; tar xvzf netscape 4.7 tar.gz 3. change to the newly created subdirectory of /tmp 4. run the installation script: ./ns-install (the only question you have to answer is the target directory to which you want to install the files, e.g. /opt/netscape, /usr/local/netscape or anything you like; see also the file 'README.install' in the same directory) 5. to run netscape 4.7 the MOZILLA_HOME environment variable should be set to the target directory from step 4. I've placed the following starting script 'netscape' in /usr/local/bin (but you can also set the variable in the init script of your shell, e.g. ~/.bashrc, place the netscape directory in your path and start it with the command 'netscape'): #!/bin/bash # /usr/local/bin/netscape: wrapper for Netscape Navigator 4.7 MOZILLA_HOME="/opt/netscape" if [ -x ${MOZILLA_HOME}/netscape ]; then ${MOZILLA_HOME}/netscape fi 6. to add netscape to the Debian menu (e.g. under fvwm2 when you click with the left mouse button on the root window/desktop) you can place the following menu-entry file 'netscape-menu' in /etc/menu: # /etc/menu/netscape-menu: menu entry for Netscape Navigator 4.7 ?package(local.netscape):\ needs="x11"\ section="Apps/Net"\ title="netscape"\ longtitle="Netscape Navigator 4.7"\ command="/usr/local/bin/netscape" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (adjust for your start method) and run 'update-menus'. After restarting the windowmanager there will be a new menu entry 'netscape' under Apps/Net. Bye Andreas On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:11:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > I've downloaded the netscape 4.7 tar.gz file from netscape and > installed (using dselect) netscape-base and netscape4 and their req's.. > but when I checked after the packages were installed (using find) > there was nothing executable named netscape anywhere. (just some > non-script in /etc/ I think) I thought maybe that I hadn't renamed the > tar.gz file in whatever manner is being referred to above. I copied the > tar.gz to someplace besides /tmp (so it wouldn't go *poof* when I > logged back into the machine). Once I rename it however I need to > what do I need to do to get netscape4 to install it. Alternatively, am I > missing some _other_ crucial step? > ...