*- On 22 Jun, Tom Pfeifer wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's" > Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> Hi all: >> >> Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape >> browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package? >> >> As far as I found out, versions >=4.5 can be found in unstable, right? >> Can there be any problem because Slink has glibc-2.0, and potato -- >> 2.1? >> >> Also, is there a browser-only 4.6? >> [good apt-get advice] > > The 4.6 version of Netscape is only in potato (unstable) and requires > the 2.1 version of libc6, which is also only in potato. If you're not > otherwise planning on upgrading to potato at this time, you would > probably be best off to stick with Netscape 4.5 for now. I've had them > both installed and didn't notice much, if any, difference in > functionality - and version 4.5 running on slink is likely to be more > stable. >
There are packages for netscape 4.6 at http://ftp.netgod.net/x built against slink. I think you still have to get the netscape-base-4_14 from the contrib/web section of unstable(it is not dependent on libc6>=2.1). Just install that package by hand with dpkg and then add 'deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/' to your sources.list file and do as Tom described. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
