On 01 Jul 2001 11:59:20 -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I just installed Debian potato and want to use Netscape. I went to the > Debian > website and found two .deb packages Hm, this sounds as if you downloaded the debs per hand and installed them with dpkg -i. Is there some special reason why you didn't do it with apt-get or dselect? If there's none, I suggest you look at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html (Section 6 of the debian FAQ) plus the following sections 8 and 9.
> netscape-base-476_4.76-1.deb and > netscape-base4_4.76-1.deb. These packages installed properly but I don't > know what to do with them I suggest to use dselect to install, since it will recommend packages you may like to have when you have netscape. Make sure to read the help screen for dselect, especially the key bindings, they are rather odd. Just search for netscape (with /netscape and \ to repeat the search), until you find package netscape-smotif-476. Select it, and dselect will tell you what else you need (and select it by itself) and what it recommends. The packages you chose are the right ones, but they don't suffice. This happens when you install "by hand" (dpkg -i). Try dselect as described or 'apt-get install netscape-smotif-476'. apt-get will install all _needed_ packages, but no recommends. A very good resource if you need to know something (especially dependencies) about particular packages is http://packages.debian.org/ (or a mirror) If you have it installed properly, an icon for netscape should be in your debian menus of your favorite window manager; netscape& in a xterm works, too. Having said all that, I think netscape is a bad choice by now, if you have a not too old PC. Mozilla has reached 0.9.2 and works better than netscape. Get the tar.gz (don't be afraid, it's already compiled and really easy) at http://www.mozilla.org/ and follow instructions (important!). Install it in a place that the debian package management won't touch, like your home dir, /opt or /usr/local. I don't know if someone has made mozilla debs for potato. Ximian (http://www.ximian.com) has made them for their Gnome distribution, but I don't know what they depend on. It may be that you end up pulling significant parts of Ximian Gnome. That's no Bad Thing, but you must keep in mind that debian and Ximian Gnome-debs don't mix well. Best way to go is probably the Mozilla-provided tar.gz, unless you want Ximian Gnome anyway -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
