FWIW, Chris built a .deb a while ago, it's on ftp.alphalinux.org and mirrors.
--rdp On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: > Gnana ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > when i try to install netscape in Debian 2.2, i get: > > > > kabarga:/home/gnana# apt-get install netscape-base-476 > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Package netscape-base-476 has no available version, but exists in the > > database. > > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > > of sources.list > > E: Package netscape-base-476 has no installation candidate > > kabarga:/home/gnana# > > > > are the packages broken? > > I assume that you are trying to install on an Alpha? If so Netscape is > only available for x86 systems. You can grab the Tru64 UNIX version of > Netscape in RPM from Compaq (which include the libs needed to run it) > and use alien to convert it to a deb. Otherwise you could try a recent > mozilla (NOT the one in Debian for Alphas) and try building it > yourself. Hopefully this will be fixed sometimes soon. If you need > help, let me know. > > HTH, > Ron -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
