Netscape installation info [Re: Whiney little request]

1998-01-16 Thread Mike Miller
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, since the topic *is* ``Whiney little request'' and > wrappers such as this seem the most likely way to integrate > commercial software into Debian, is it worth consi

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [about the netscape installer] > It's in the contrib/web section. That's in > /dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/web . I forgot to mention that the package name has changed, too. There now is a netscape3 package and a netscape4 package. But you can onl

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > The netscape package that comes with debian is only an installer/wrapper. > > Before you install it, you need to have the netscape tarball in /tmp (or > > $TEMPDIR). > > > > Besides installing the netsca

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > Besides installing the netscape binaries in the right places and > > registering it to the package management system, the debian package also > > provides a wrapper for netscape to ensure that it doesn't crash because of > > version conflicts with your system libraries. > and where is netscape

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-16 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:45:32 +0100 (CET) > From: Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Richard Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Whiney little request > Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Ja

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Anthony Towns
etscape tarball in /tmp (or > $TEMPDIR). Well, since the topic *is* ``Whiney little request'' and wrappers such as this seem the most likely way to integrate commercial software into Debian, is it worth considering a way of specifying how to get needed non-deb files? S

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote: > P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I > encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else > have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told > me that the the n

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Will Lowe
Xbiff is there. http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/x11/xcontrib.html There are also other alternatives to xbiff that are similar but do niftier things. Hit http://www.debian.org/packages.html and search for "xbiff". > encountered a bug when trying to install net

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:02AM -0700, Richard Wicks wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff > program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I > am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is j

Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Richard Wicks
Hello everybody, I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just filler for your mailbox but I would like to see it as part of the d