Problem solved-- thanks to the following hint: On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > XNLSPATH isn't the problem (It was only suggested as a > possible problem). The locale problem (which I thought was solved a > long time ago - did you recently upgrade to slink?) occurs because of > a missing /usr/lib/X11/locale directory. Check this directory. If > this isn't there (or its empty, or its a symlink) you can get this > locale directory from the xlib6g (part of X11) package (3.3.2.3a-8.1).
For some reason, even though xlib6g was installed, /usr/lib/X11/locale was an empty directory. Since I couldn't figure out how to do a forced install from an ftp site (i.e. what is the "package" arg for dpkg -i), I simply replicated the 'locale' tree from another host, and now netscape 4.5 (installed from the slink distro) works just fine. -- Rick Venable =====\ |=| "Eschew Obfuscation" FDA/CBER Biophysics Lab |____/ |=| Bethesda, MD U.S.A. | \ / |=| ( Not an official statement or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \ / |=| position of the FDA; for that, http://www.erols.com/rvenable \/ |=| see http://www.fda.gov )
