try doing just apt-get install communicator
i would remove all the other netscape packages first apt may do it for you but if it were my system i'd do it(you won't waste any time downloading them again as they still should be in apt's cache) nate Xucaen wrote: > > Yikes! > I have done: > apt-get install netscape-base-4 > apt-get install netscape-base-476 > apt-get install netscape-java-476 > apt-get install navigator-base-476 > apt-get install communicator-base-476 > > but NONE of these ever installs the netscape > executable. or, if it is, I can't find it > anywhere to run it. > so, in conjunction to all of these apt-get > installations, I have also downloaded the > linux-2.2 navigator (not communicator) and ran > the ns-install script (which seems to work) but > the netscape executable still can't find the > libstdc++ (see below) > > Please, anyone who has succesfully installed > netscape, please, how did you do it?? > > Good night, all.. I've been at this for quite > some time, and now it is time for sleep. :-) > > thankyou all who have replyed to me tonight. Your > support has kept me from going mad. > > xucaen > > xucaen > --- Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all! > > I need some advice. I am running Debian v2.2r2, > > XFREE v3.3.6, I just installed Netscape v4.76. > > The installation was successful. But when I try > > to run netscape I get an error concerning libc. > > The README says there is a known > > incompatibility > > with Netscape and libc and to go to > > http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC to > > download > > the appropriate libc. > > > > I'm wondering if maybe I should just install an > > earlier version of netscape? Or should I > > install > > a new version of libc and if so, which one? > > > > here is a screen print of my error message when > > I > > try to run netscape: > > > > ======== > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/netscape$ ls > > > > LICENSE XKeysymDB libnullplugin-dynMotif.so > > > > netscape-dynMotif vreg Netscape.ad > > bookmark.htm nethelp plugins README java > > netscape registry > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/netscape$ ./netscape > > > > ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries: > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/netscape$ > > > > ======== > > > > I installed netscape as root using the > > ns-install > > script that came with netscape. > > > > thanks!!! > > > > xucaen > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos > > online! > > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]