Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Alex Chamberlain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 03:49]:
> > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I
> > have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect,
> > but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4;
> > netscape-base-4 does not appear to be available". I've searched high
> > and low on ftp.debian.org for netscape-base-4.dpkg or anything like
> > it. Will someone let me in on the secret?
>
> Since you mention using dselect, just select the package you want
> instead of picking the "-base" packages.
>
Been there, done that. 8-( That's my point. 8-) I can't install
ANYTHING netscape related because of the dependency on the nonexistent
package "netscape-base-4".
For instance, if I try to select only the packages I want and not select
netscape-base-476 in dselect, I get the following dependency error
message:
communicator-spellchk-476 depends on netscape-base-476
communicator-base-476 depends on netscape-base-476
communicator-nethelp-476 depends on netscape-base-476
netscape-java-476 depends on netscape-base-476
netscape-smotif-476 depends on netscape-base-476
and if I then go back and reselect netscape-base-476 I get
netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4; netscape-base-4 does
not appear to be available.
Or are you telling me that there is a bug in the package dependencies
and I need to force the ones I need with dpkg from the command line
directly? I haven't tried that yet. I was assuming operator error
first before I blamed the package maintainers. ;-)
> If you just want to install the browser, "apt-get install navigator"
> will do it (and grab whatever else it needs). For the entire "suite",
> type "apt-get install communicator".
>
Doesn't work either:
starfish:~# apt-get install navigator
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package navigator
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