Vern....That's great! I have one question though. When I just
visually checked three seperate update sites, there were no 7.0
RPMS there to download. What is it that I'm missing here?
Alan
vern wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Vern....I've used the desktop update icon extensively in
> > mandrake 6.0 and 6.1 and it worked just fine, but since
> > installing 7.0 every time I've checked there's been nothing to
> > update.
> >
> > I believe I'd uninstall all three netscape rpms and then hand
> > install the new ones. You can do this on the command line with
> > rpm or with kpackage from KDE. I almost always use kpackage
> > myself. If you use kpackage, after uninstalling all three then
> > install common first then either of the other two, and finally
> > disable checking for dependencies when installing the last one.
> >
> > I downloaded the 128 bit encryption version od Netscape 4.72
> > from one of the crypto mirrors listed on the Mandrake web page.
> > If it turns out you have to re-download, you might consider
> > doing that as well.
> >
> > The rpms you already downloaded should be in the /tmp (that's
> > the one in the / directory) IIRC. So you should be able to try
> > them again before re-downloading anything again.
> >
> > Have you looked in the /usr/bin/ directory to see if the shell
> > script and the two softlinks are there (netscape,
> > netscape-communicator, and netscape-navigator)?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> Okay Alan, I couldn't find the netscape communicator anywhere, so
> I got on the Mandrake site with KFM and went to the update section
> and downloaded communicator 4.70 again, since I had the 4.70 common
> files already installed. Anyway I installed the rpm with kpackage and all
> is well now! Don't know what happened to the old 4.62 version of netscape
> ?? Thanks for the help. I only have a 26K analog phone line here so
> I have to keep my downloads to a minimum, long live Cheap Bytes CD's!
> Vern
