> >I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian
packages.
> >From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the
> >tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp
> >directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should
> >automagically install the tarball for me.
> >
> yup, just download the netscape glibc tarbal and chuck it into /tmp. make
sure
> it's owned by root and that you have the packages netscape depends on (in
> particular motifnls often needs to be newly installed). then dpkg -i ur
> netscape deb and ahoy, nutscrape is yours.
You shouldn't need to download the tarball manually to install communicator
from Debian packages (debs). I installed communicator using a simple
apt-get update
apt-get install communicator
(as root, of course) which does all the downloading and installation for you
using the much-praised APT package management system.
First, though, you'll need to have your /etc/apt/sources.list set up. Look
at the commented examples in that file, and then create your own using the
mirror closest to you. I set up my sources.list to fetch from the potato
version, and the communicator in potato seems just fine running with my
slink system, and so I would generally recommend doing that (for what a
newbie's recommendation is worth).
c
