[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote:
>On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:
>>   Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install
>>   Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff.  I am
>>   going to get the tar ball and install it.
>> 
>>   Looking into the netscape ftp site and there were several
>>   version:
>> 
>>   . /pub/communicator/english/4.72/unix/unsupported/linux22
>>   . /pub/communicator/english/4.72/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2
>
>the reason we do not ship a libc6 based communicator

Huh?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/debian_version 
woody
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -p communicator-smotif-472
Package: communicator-smotif-472
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/web
Installed-Size: 13596
Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Source: netscape4.72
Version: 4.72-15
Provides: netscape, www-browser, news-reader, mail-reader,
communicator-browser-472, netscape-browser-472
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1), libxpm4, xlib6g
(>= 3.3.5), communicator-base-472, netscape-base-4 (>= 1:4.70-23)
[...]

(Though I've no argument with it being unstable; I use the libc5 version
myself.)

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Colin Watson                                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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