On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:57:57PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
| Thanks for all the suggestions! I really am trying to learn the basics
| of Linux, a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to
| Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was
| on sale, remaindered, I guess not a big seller!) Karsten, I will check
| out the books that you recommended. I really do need more instruction!
|
| I installed both Linux 2.1 (kernel 2.1.121 shows up in a message at
| startup time) and Netscape 4.75 from CDs.
| (I copied the .tar file for Netscape from the CD) I installed Netscape
| because I had problems with the Mozilla that came on the Debian CDs. I
| was able to connect to my ISP, then start Mozilla, but the one thing
| that I couldn't do in Mozilla was go to a website by typing in the URL
Oh. What happens if you type
host www.debian.org
in a terminal?
What happens if you try to go to
http://198.186.203.20
in mozilla?
What sort of internet connection do you have? Is it dial-up,
ethernet, DSL, cable?
| then hitting enter. Nothing happened when I hit enter. I was only able
| to go to links that were already on the homepage that came up when I
| started Mozilla, and then of course follow links from there. At this
| point I am still using Windows 95. (I have a dual-boot with LILO.) I
| would love to get away from Windows 95.
|
| Karsten, I tried the $ echo $PATH command and it listed five paths, none
| of which contained the netscape executable. When I switched to
| /usr/local/netscape and typed:
|
| ./netscape
| or
| /usr/local/netscape/netscape
There's the executable. With your current setup you need to either
add that directory (/usr/local/netscape) to your PATH or (preferrably)
add a symlink to it :
ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape
You have /usr/local/bin in your PATH already, right?
| I got the following:
|
| error in loading shared libraries
| libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: no such
| file or directory
|
| Is this because Netscape 4.75 has problems? If I buy a new set of
This means that when netscape was compiled it was linked against a
different version of libstdc++ than the one you have right now. There
really isn't a solution since we don't have netscape's sources to
recompile it.
If you can get to the internet at all (or if you want to use the CDs),
try using 'apt-get' to install stuff.
Here are instructions to setup apt for
cdrom :
First run 'apt-cdrom' to tell apt what CDs you have and to
build a database of the available packages.
internet :
Include lines such as the following in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
Then run 'apt-get update' to update the database of available
packages.
To install a package run 'apt-get install <package name>', or to
upgrade packages that are already installed run 'apt-get upgrade'. If
you really want netscape, then I think 'navigator-smotif-477' is the
package you want to install. I actually prefer galeon as my browser.
I don't think you are having problems with mozilla, but rather with
internet connectivity.
HTH,
-D
