Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-29 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Colin Watson wrote: > Leaving it there with known security holes was worse ... > > If you want it back, there is really only one option: find a developer > willing to maintain it properly. That's absolutely all it comes down to. "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > As Colin notes in his reply, and was note

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
> Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > Testing? NS is horribly out of date, and NS6 and up have some serious issues added in. Mozilla is it's codebase, so Debian takes out the middle man. > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files ok? If Netscape does it

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:09, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > > > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > > > > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > > > Testin

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:09:04AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > Debian Weekly News warned a while back that it would get the hook, as a) > > it is non-free, b) it is buggy and not getting noticeably better as > > Netscape is looking to retire it in favour of Netscape 7, an

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > > Testing? > > > > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > Testing? > > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files ok? > > Chocolate or Vanilla? > > C

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:20:03PM -0700, peanut butter wrote: > > > What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib" > > > vs. "non-free". Which naturally leads to: is one better > > > than the other? > > > > The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:27AM -0700, peanut butter wrote: >> Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered question. I >> just spent alot of time searching the last quarter of mailing >> list archives and searching Debian Package descriptions to a

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread peanut butter
> > What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib" > > vs. "non-free". Which naturally leads to: is one better > > than the other? > > The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon > the real packages in non-free. Rather than downloading and tryin

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread D. Hoyem
As a matter of interest I did a dist-upgrade yesterday and had previously installed Communicator package ie Netscape and now have both on my system and either work. Don --- peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered > question. I > just spent alo

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:27AM -0700, peanut butter wrote: > Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered question. I > just spent alot of time searching the last quarter of mailing > list archives and searching Debian Package descriptions to answer > the question myself but can't seem

Re: Communicator-after-Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Rossen Naydenov
I think you should promptly type where exactly are the two versions of the browsers I had the same problem but when I put two shortcuts with the exact path to th browsers I had no problems Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:18:15PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: Hello,I've installed th

Re: Communicator-after-Mozilla

2001-02-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:18:15PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Hello, > I've installed the Netscape Communicator debs, and I installed the > Mozilla 0.8 from mozilla.org. > When I start up only the communicator, it runs ok. > When I start up only mozilla, it runs ok. > But: when I first start up mozi

Re: communicator-smotif-47 out of frozen.

2000-04-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > As some of you may have noticed, communicator is broken on powerpc now. > That is, > > apt-get install communicator > > won't work, since communicator-smotif-47 is in woody. I asked Richard > Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about this and he told me that there are RC

Re: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, The netscape-base-4 requires libc5 stuff. Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: > >On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: > >> Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install > >> Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am > >> goin

Re: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: >On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: >> Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install >> Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am >> going to get the tar ball and install it. >> >> Looking into the netscape ftp site a

RE: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install > Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am > going to get the tar ball and install it. > > Looking into the netscape ftp site and there were several > version: > > .

Re: communicator-glibc, when?

2000-03-10 Thread Brad
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > Is there a chance that the standard netscape package will use the > glibc-version? i have to use it since i need the java1.2 plugin, and i would > like to use the packaged version instead of a locally installed one The latest n

Re: Communicator 4.6.1 Segfaulting under slink

1999-08-24 Thread Patrick Olson
> I'm trying to run Communicator 4.6.1 (downloaded 128 bit, non-glibc > version), and every time I try to start up, it waits a few minutes and > segfaults. Hints as to what to do next? Do I download and use glibc, > or pull their 56 bit exportable version? Is this likely a Debian > problem or a

OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > important things ar

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Andreas Voegele
> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I > have to add the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape > dialog or rename after. Netscape seems to insist on stripping > the extension. > This is closer. Can anyone improve this? Add the following line to y

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to > > > > > use > > > > > another v

source packages (was Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug)

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug" > * Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add >> the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add > the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or rename after. > Netscape seems to insist on stripping the extension. I have seen this behaviour without adding any MI

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > > > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread John Foster
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use ___

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded. I have this problem w

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hartmut Figge wrote: > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded. > > > > could someone - prefe

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "communicator 4.6 - ftp bug" > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to us

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
Use SHIFT-Click when downloading zipped files to stop Netscape from unzipping it. I think there might be a way to configure it not to have this behaviour... -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: [interesting things about the subject] assuming that the list isn´t much interested in the question i´ll answer ed per pm. hafi

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when > > clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to > > download 'as-is'. > > so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the > search for a ver

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when > clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to > download 'as-is'. so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the search for a version, which will do, what should be expe

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > another version, which will download a fi

Re: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Brad
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can > find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone > had any luck? Did you chec

RE: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-May-99 Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can > find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone > had any luck? I installed it but i

Re: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Sean
I downloaded the non-distribution-specific binaries from netscape's ftp site, and everything has worked so far. I'm using potato. Sean Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only ve

Re: Communicator 4.5 and LDAP

1999-05-12 Thread Rob
> I switched from communicator 4.05 to 4.5 and now I can't access the LDAP > server in our company. All searchez return an "unknown LDAP error 0xFF" > when trying to access the LDAP server. Going back to 4.05 fixes the problem. > > Is there anyone aware of any changes to the LDAP support in Co

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-04-23 Thread ktb
I've used both (4.5 libc5, 4.51 glibc2) and haven't experienced any difference. Both have there bugs of course. kent Sami Dalouche wrote: > > In one of their readmes, they theid the glibc2 version is less stable than > their libc5 version of communicator/navigator. > Have anyone tried the bot

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-04-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
In one of their readmes, they theid the glibc2 version is less stable than their libc5 version of communicator/navigator. Have anyone tried the both version and seen a difference ? On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 01:35:17PM -0330, Greg Starkes wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > > Does

Re: Communicator-4.51 weirdness

1999-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > I take it all back ... for some reason it all works now :-/ I've noticed this type of thing from time to time with netscape. Sometimes it will refuse to let me paste from it into one xterm, and will paste fine into another. It's quite goofed up somehow.. Nothing specific to

RE: Communicator-4.51 weirdness

1999-04-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: > > Just loaded the 4.51 stuff and I noticed that I can not cut/paste from a > web page anymore! > > I am running Communicator on a "headless" Linux server with the display > exported to a Solaris box running CDE. If I try to left-click and > highlight text, not

Re: Communicator email & security

1999-03-24 Thread Paul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friends: > > I'm having a variety of problems with Netscape Communicator & > Debian. In my Hamm installation I tried installing Netscape both with > & without the installer .deb package. In both cases I experienced very > flaky outgoing mail performance using mail.e

Re: Communicator email & security

1999-03-23 Thread Chuck Lackey
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:19:12 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Dear Friends: > >I'm having a variety of problems with Netscape Communicator & >Debian. In my Hamm installation I tried installing Netscape both with >& without the installer .deb package. In both cases I experienced very >fla

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-03-07 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? It's under the unsupported unix section, so you can get the 128-bit from their web site. The supported one is libc5, as yo

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-03-07 Thread servis
*- On 6 Mar, Curt Daugaard wrote about "Communicator 4.5 libc6 version" > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much appreciated. > > > Curt Daugaard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-03-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Curt Daugaard wrote: > > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much appreciated. Bob has told you where the file is, however the Netscape versions from ftp.netscape.com

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/ Bob On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much ap

Re: Communicator Package & 128 bit encription

1999-01-30 Thread Carey Evans
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought I read here once that there is a package to install to make > the Comminucator package installed use 128-bit encription. Is this > true, or do I have to stick with a tarball? The Fortify program does this; install the fortify-linux-x86 and fort

Re: Communicator Package & 128 bit encription

1999-01-30 Thread Paul Miller
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Fortify will convert either navigator or communicator to 128-bit > encryption. For obvious reasons, you will need to get this from one of > the non-us sites. > Thanx, just what the doctor ordered. Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Communicator Package & 128 bit encription

1999-01-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
Fortify will convert either navigator or communicator to 128-bit encryption. For obvious reasons, you will need to get this from one of the non-us sites. Bob On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > I thought I read here once that there is a package to install to make > the Comminucator packag

Re: Communicator 4.5 & Bus Errors Again (libs?)

1999-01-04 Thread Rick Venable
I'm having similar problems on my 'slink' system with all of the versions of netscape I've downloaded from Netscape, including the unsupported one for libc6. In addition to the "bus error", I also get a message about locale `C' not supported If I knew how, I'd consider backing off to 'ha

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Tongyu Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. > I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. > here is the ldd output: > ldd: version 1.9.9 > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) > libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. > I am using tcsh. Also make sure that the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME is set to point to /usr/local/netscape > The $HOME is already set. > here is the ldd output: > ldd: version 1.9.9 > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Tongyu Wang replied to my answer posting: >>I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. >>I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. >>here is the ldd output Please upgrade UR libc5. U have the latest version in ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libc5_5.4.46

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Tongyu Wang
I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. here is the ldd output: ldd: version 1.9.9 libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40055000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Tongyu Wang posted here: >The communicator 4.5 (complete install) won't run on my Debian box. I >wonder maybe I did something wrong in configuration. Here is what I did: Did U get the libc5 or glibc2 (from the unsupported dir) variety ? >where did I do wrong? >Is the libc5 in my system compatibl

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-26 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, KTB . wrote: > >> I followed the instructions from the previous mail and got the > following result: > >> > >> gzip: stdin: unexpected en of file > >> tar: unexpected EOF on archive file > >> tar: child returned status 1 > >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > >>

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-26 Thread KTB .
>To: "KTB ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Communicator Installation >Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:46:43 +1030 >From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I believe I did this already by going through dselect. Sele

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-26 Thread Mark Phillips
> I believe I did this already by going through dselect. Selecting the > Netscape4 install program, after copying the communicator-v45...tar.gz > file to /tmp. That didn't work. What you are sugesting seems to be the > same except in my case dselect used dpkg. If I am not correct in this >

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-26 Thread KTB .
>To: "KTB ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Communicator Installation >Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 09:09:40 +1030 >From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe I did this already by going through dselect. Selecti

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread Mark Phillips
> I don't have my notes in front of me but the "netscape-unpacked.9955" > came from using a command 'tar > communicator-v45' According to Sudhakar's instructions something > like that was supposed to happen and I needed to use dpkg -i on > "netscape-unpacked.9955." If I understood him co

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread KTB .
>Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:21:40 -0600 (CST) >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: KTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" , >recipient list not shown: ; >Subject: Re: Communicator Installation > >On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, KT

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > I followed the instructions from the previous mail and got the following > result: > > gzip: stdin: unexpected en of file > tar: unexpected EOF on archive file > tar: child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > I have also tried t

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-25 Thread K B
ry or text after downloading? Thanks, Kent >Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:24:33 + (GMT) >From: Martin Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: KTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Communicator installation again > > >On

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-24 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > OK, I downloaded the Communicator 4.5 file, again. I am using hamm. I ran Err - you _are_ downloading it as a binary (and not a text) file? (If in doubt, press Shift as you select file to download). Just an idle thought. -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Gla

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-24 Thread KTB
I followed the instructions from the previous mail and got the following result: gzip: stdin: unexpected en of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I have also tried to install Communicator 4.0 to see if that works, it

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-24 Thread KTB
OK, I downloaded the Communicator 4.5 file, again. I am using hamm. I ran dselect and the Netscape installation program. The file was in /tmp. I got the same error message as below. I then tried using, dpkg -i netscape-unpacked.9955/ I got the following readout: dpkg-split: error reading nets

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-23 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: > Kent, > > Here's what worked for me (I recently upgraded to slink; this > may not all be available otherwise... AFAIK): > > I used apt-get to install the following: > > netscape-base-45 > netscape-java-45 >

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-23 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > OK, I think I came fairly close this time:) I copied the file to /tmp > ran dselect (the netscape set up program) here is where it ended: > > Setting up netscape 4 (4.0-12) > -Found ' /tmp/communicatortar.gz'...(valid) > -Extracting from /tmp/communicator..

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Kent, Here's what worked for me (I recently upgraded to slink; this may not all be available otherwise... AFAIK): I used apt-get to install the following: netscape-base-45 netscape-java-45 communicator-base-45 communicator-smotif-45

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
I had a weird experience when installing Netscape 4.5 using 'Hamm', in that I had to rename the netscape file that I downloaded before the install program would recognise it. When dselect trys to configure the netscape package it complained that it could not find the right file and gave a generic

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > One other thought, locate isn't instant. It works by using a database > that is generated periodically. I.e. you can move the file and locate > will still show it in the old location. > > Brandon > You can force the update on demand with the

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Kirk Hogenson wrote: > Can't think of anything else that could be wrong. If you can't > get it to work, maybe it would help to post the results of > "ls -l /root" so we can see what you've got. > > KTB wrote: > > > > such file or directory." I have used cd /tmp and verifie

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >>Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. >>I downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file >>was saved in/root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz > > # cd /root > # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I > downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was > saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz # cd /root # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz this wil

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
You are using the mv command correctly. (You should also be able to use cp). So that is not the problem. The most likely cause is that you are typing in the filename incorrectly. It is easy to mix up - or . with _. Also, the file name might have a space at the end. Try using "mv /root/comm* /

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread KTB
OK, I ran dselect and ran the Netscape set up program and the program tells me in order to work it needs the Communicator file to be in the tmp directory. While as root I tried to move the file again to the /tmp directory. I tried different variations I am entering, mv /root/communicator-'the r

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok. The installer from Debian site will look for the communicator file to be located in /tmp So, what you do is this: download Netscape commmunicator from Netscape site, and put it into /tmp with " mv communicator* /tmp" or whatever the name is. Then run dselect and install the netscape4.04 ( or wh

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
At 01:52 PM 12/21/1998 -0600, KTB wrote: >Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I >downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was >saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz >I'm thinking the file shouldn't be in /root w

Re: Communicator Pro

1998-09-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > netscape4_4.0-12.deb will only install navigator* or communicator-v4* > packages, but not communicator-pro-v4* packages. Can I just rename my > package from communicator-pro-v4* to communicator-v4*, or will this > mess up something? I did exact

Re: Communicator 4.

1997-11-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 11:15:17AM -0800, TJM wrote: > I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 > kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage > is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes > with the commu

RE: Communicator 4

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Tony; In addition to the excellent reasons already given, by using the debian installer you also set yourself up for "painless" installation of packages that use, support or interact with netscape. best, -bill Tony wrote: I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.

Re: Communicator 4.

1997-11-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 > > kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage > > is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes > > with the communic

Re: Communicator 4.

1997-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, TJM wrote: > I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 > kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage > is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes > with the communicator package from

Re: Communicator 4.

1997-11-24 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 > kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage > is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes > with the communicator package from netscape. I know that dselect w

Re: communicator/installer

1997-09-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
If you give up on which one to use, try the readme file it comes with. Its really easy to install by hand. Matthew On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know which installer (if any) should I use to install > the netscape/communicator professional edition. > >

Re: communicator

1997-04-08 Thread Paul Wade
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, m* wrote: > quick one: > > > is communicator a memory hog? > > my guess is yes. > > m* > > -- > "The Shining One" > -- I just installed the beta3 on a 486-66mhz with 12mb. The only improvement over beta2 that is obvious is stability. It takes a longgg time to loa