On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Radtke wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Edwards > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > > >Debian's X installation needed a > > >*lot* of work. > > Which one? > > The text based one (xf86config) or the graphical one (XF86Setup)? > > Hello all, > > Since most half a year I am following any Debian list > since I was using a Debian 1.3.1 dist. Difficulties > came up immediately after having installed debians main > packages and adding X packages for getting my X > running. Nice dream I had. Bad reality reveals. It's > one BIG problem installing any package; i.e. the > netscape one: it required some engl. version 3.x of it. > Problem: no more available. Finally i got it from > anywhere out of hell... Then installation failed. Why ? > I do not know this. But discussing with others we > conluded that at least the dselect-'utility' isn't too > strong in effectivity. (It seems to be a order problem > even if checking dependencies) So now my answer to your > question: Unfortunately it is obvious to me (and > others) that beside the dselect-tool the x-tools need > some help, too. It isn't too comfortable to be useful > installing X, unfortunately.
So, concluding, this has nothing to do with installing the X-windows system, but with the netscape application. I don't know where you got the installer for netscape3 from, but there has been an installer for netscape4 for ages now. Maarten _____________________________________________________________________________ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering | | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
