On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:45:32 +0100 (CET) > From: Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Richard Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Whiney little request > Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:53:40 +0000 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote: > > > P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I > > encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else > > have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told > > me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory. > > Does this sound familar to anybody? In anycase, netscape did not > > install > > so I picked it up from the netscape website via lynx. > > The netscape package that comes with debian is only an installer/wrapper. > Before you install it, you need to have the netscape tarball in /tmp (or > $TEMPDIR). > > Besides installing the netscape binaries in the right places and > registering it to the package management system, the debian package also > provides a wrapper for netscape to ensure that it doesn't crash because of > version conflicts with your system libraries.
and where is netscape installer in hamm ? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .