That version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) is fully packaged for slink and should be installable. The netscape-base-4 package is in the contrib section, while the rest of the packages are in non-free.
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure apt-get is looking in all 3 sections (main, contrib, and non-free) of the slink (stable) distribution. In other words, you need a line like this in that file: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Once you have the /etc/apt/sources.list file set up correctly, apt-get will automatically download and install all dependencies, although there are also some optional packages like spell checker, help, and java. On my slink install, I have the following Netscape Communicator 4.5 packages installed: communicator-base-45 communicator-nethelp-45 communicator-smotif-45 communicator-spellchk-45 netscape-base-4 netscape-base-45 netscape-java-45 Tom howard mann wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently installed Slink ( kernel 2.2.12 ) that I obtained as a box > set from valinux.com. The installation was fine. > > I attempted to install communicator-smotif-45 using apt-get. This failed > due to an unmet dependency related to " netscape-base-4" which was not > "installable." > > Which version of Communicator would you recommend that I install ? I do > not want to install a version that requires glibc - 2.1 just yet. I > want to get used to Slink first :-) > > Thanks, > > -- > Howard Mann > http://www.newbielinux.com > Online Troubleshooting Resources:HOWTO > (http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html) >
