On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Jianbo Zhang wrote: > > > > Hi Debians, > > > > When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it > > says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I > > installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with > > nsinstall. So far I did not find any problem, but I still do not know > > why Debian netscape installer does not work for me. Help is highly > > appreciated. > > > > Jianbo > > > > > The v4 installer assumes it is installing the libc5 version of NS, thus > it has dependancies on the libc5 package. We now have libc6 versions of > NS, but there hasn't yet been an update to these Deb installers. So you > did what you had to do (install NS without the Deb installer). I did > the same thing.
The worst thing about this seems to me, that the filenames for communinctor-4.5-libc5 and communinctor-4.5-libc6 are the same. The installer script couldn't tell the difference from the filename like it does now. And for the libc6 communicator there has to come a new installer packages anyway, since it depends on other libraries than the libc5 communicator depends on. Remco