The package you installed is the source. Source is the text a programmer types
in in a higher language like C, after which he uses a "compiler" to turn the
source into binary files, so they can be executed. Software is easier to write
in a language that resembles a known (English) language than it is to write it
in machine-code.
Therefore you first need to compile your version of Netscape, and you can find
instructions on how to do so in the included README file, or the other files
which might be included (such as INSTALL).
However, I reccomend getting the binary rpm; saves you all the work of compiling
the software, and keeps your rpm-database in harmony with the system: installed
rpms get an entry in the rpm-database which can be compared with the
windows-registry for installed apps, but compiled and installed source doesn't.
On Mar 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I "installed" the new netscape 4.70 source rpm and it
> installed all the files in my /usr/src/netscape directory.
> Now I want to "install" 4.70 netscape for real and use
> it. What's my next move? Any help would be most
> appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Vern
>
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