Cam Ellison wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install > > communicator 4.76. > > I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif > > ... > > > > How do I apt-get it? > > > > apt-get install communicator??? > > > Unless things have changed, what you have there is the installer. You > need to get the application itself from Netscape, first, then use > apt-get as you suggest. I don't remember whether you're supposed to put > the Netscape tarball in some specific place, but suspect that the > installer will track it down.
I didn't know there was a page that lists the packages,in this case for stable. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Click on stable then web software and see that the name is communicator which is a meta package which I assume will install everything it needs since apt is cool. eric :-)
