netscape 4.75 as root
Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks! this is diasabled by default - try running it from a command line and you get a message to this affect it's apparently a security risk Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
Marcelo Chiapparini schrieb: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you type netscape in a console window as root, you will get the explanation: Netscape is not allowed to be run as root for security reasons. If you absolutely want to run netscape as root, you can edit the startup script for netscape. I don't know where it lies, but you can follow the symlinks from /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape until you find the script. In this script, change the line allow_root from no to yes. Hope this helps, sorry I'm not using my Debian box to read and write to this list, but a SUN-workstation at univerity, so I cannot look for the file names right now :-( joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. Marcelo As David and Joerg told you that running as root appears to be a security risk you could 1)Start a term window, 2) su a diff user, 3)cd to users dir, 4)start netscape with netscape. This would start netscape as the user you sued to and give you the mail and bookmarks for that user. This is the long way about it. It would be better just to login as the user and su to root when you need to do root tasks. Hope this helps Scott
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, raider wrote: As David and Joerg told you that running as root appears to be a security risk you could 1)Start a term window, 2) su a diff user, 3)cd to users dir, 4)start netscape with netscape. This would start netscape as the user you sued to and give you the mail and bookmarks for that user. This is the long way about it. It would be better just to login as the user and su to root when you need to do root tasks. Hope this helps But if you really need to run netscape as root, I succeeded with (well, I have communicator): /usr/lib/netscape/475/communicator/communicator-smotif.real so, look if there is also a .real executable in your netscape directory (the one without gave a security error - as it should be). Greetz, Sebastiaan
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
Thanks a lot to David, Joerg and Scott for illuminating me regarding to this. I don't need to run netscape from root at all. I only asked because I was thinking it was a problem with my netscape installation Thanks again! cheers Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Re: netscape 4.75 as root
I'm not aware of any good reason to be running X as root. Ever. When you want to do system things, the su command will prompt you for the root password - you now have root access in that terminal. Do your stuff and then get out of there. On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks!
Re: netscape 4.75 as root
Try editing /etc/netscape4/config The line your looking for to enable root access is in there. On 01-Dec-2000 Joerg Johannes wrote: Marcelo Chiapparini schrieb: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you type netscape in a console window as root, you will get the explanation: Netscape is not allowed to be run as root for security reasons. If you absolutely want to run netscape as root, you can edit the startup script for netscape. I don't know where it lies, but you can follow the symlinks from /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape until you find the script. In this script, change the line allow_root from no to yes. Hope this helps, sorry I'm not using my Debian box to read and write to this list, but a SUN-workstation at univerity, so I cannot look for the file names right now :-( joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Arlen Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Break into jail and claim police brutality. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming...
After uprading to the latest KDE *.debs netscape 4.75 won't bold new messages any more
Hi there, I have installed latest KDE debs and after that netscape won't bold out my unread messages any more. All messages do look like they are already read now. So where is the bug now, in KDE or in netscape ? Anybody got a similar problem ? TIA Michael Meding System is debian 2.2 with XFree4.01e and latest and greatest (?) kde2.
Paquetes Netscape 4.75
En ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates/ hay una serie de paquetes para instalar la versión 4.75 de netscape en Debian pero hay tantos paquetes que no se cuales necesito. Como me los bajo desde casa no quiero darle a telefónica más de lo que se merece. ¿Alguien me puede decir cuales son los paquetes necesarios? Gracias por vuestra atención
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption....with respect to apt-get upgrade versus apt-get install netscape
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Andreas Goesele wrote: Christopher W. Aiken writes: Add: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version. I have just done the same and my version 4.73 has been upgraded via the apt-get install netscape directive. Why didn't this happen when one does apt-get upgrade? Is it because the version numbers are different? I have had the sucurity site listed first in the source.list file. -walter
Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
Hi, so far I use an alien rpm package of netscape with 128 bit encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) deb package. Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? By the way: I have the impression that debian still adheres to a strict devision between us and non-us encryption packages which - for all what I know - given the new US legislation is obsolete. Any comments? Thanks in advance Andreas Goesele
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, so far I use an alien rpm package of netscape with 128 bit encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) deb package. Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? Couldn't tell you about the ones in the location you specify, but the woody versions appear to be. To find out, install the packages in question and go to https://www.fortify.net/cgi-bin/ssl_2 -- finger for GPG public key. pgpD8tby5jn6e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:09:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: Couldn't tell you about the ones in the location you specify, but the woody versions appear to be. To find out, install the packages in question and go to https://www.fortify.net/cgi-bin/ssl_2 I just connected to that site with my 4.75 netscape from the security ftp site, and it's 128 bit. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:09:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: -|On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: -| Hi, -| -| so far I use an alien rpm package of netscape with 128 bit -| encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) -| deb package. -| -| Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 -| 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? -| Just fire up Netscape 4.75 and pick on Help -- About Communicator. If the security section lists a couple of DES- then you have 128bit. Add: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
Christopher W. Aiken writes: Add: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version. And so it does. Thanks to all who helped! Andreas Goesele
How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?
I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157 packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do? Rick
Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?
Tricky Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157 packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do? Personally, I'd go to www.netscape.com and get what I wanted and install it in /usr/local. Then when I was ready to upgrade to woody I'd remove the /usr/local version. Just a thought. Gary
Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?
Tricky Rick wrote: I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157 packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do? What I do is edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable, then # apt-get update # apt-get install navigator I make sure it doesn't want to pull in a new libc6 for the package I want from unstable (it doesn't for netscape) before I approve and let it continue. After the install, I edit /etc/apt/sources.list again to point it back to potato and run `apt-get update' again. Peter
Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:47:05AM -0500, Tricky Rick wrote: I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and Just put deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free in sources.list. 4.75 *is* a security update. 8) Brent
Netscape 4.75 in Woody buttons in b/w
This weekend I installed Woody on a machine. First of all, I'd have to say that this further confirms to me how great Debian is! It is the most stable 'unstable' distribution I've ever used. Good work! But, I have had one problem. I am using Netscape 4.75, and am running X in 24-bit color mode. For some reason, all of the buttons (home, forward, back, etc) are displayed in black and white or greyscale. If I run X in 16 color mode, they are displayed correctly. I think everything else looks better in 24-bit or 32-bit color, so it annoys me that Netscape is doing this. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks! Travis B. Hartwell
Re: Netscape 4.75 in Woody buttons in b/w
But, I have had one problem. I am using Netscape 4.75, and am running X in 24-bit color mode. For some reason, all of the buttons (home, forward, back, etc) are displayed in black and white or greyscale. If I run X in 16 color mode, they are displayed correctly. I think everything else looks better in 24-bit or 32-bit color, so it annoys me that Netscape is doing this. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks! Sorry, AFAIK not. They consider 24bits non-standard, and it just doesn't work. Try using 32bits. Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 04:09:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Anyhow (there's always an anyhow) when I close Netscape it leaves process running so that I can not fire up another Netscape later on. A ps -ax shows: Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to put up with. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to put up with. I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and run IE for Unix on a Linux box. Personally - except for the security holes :-) - I prefer IE over Netscape. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF --
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:34:27AM -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to
mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have
to
put up with.
I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and
run IE for Unix on a Linux box.
Sure, just check out it's source code from cvs.microsoft.com, run
./configure --without-win32 --target=GNU_Linux-Intel, and then make
install, right?
SCNR, P. *8^)
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Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and run IE for Unix on a Linux box. Sure, just check out it's source code from cvs.microsoft.com, run ./configure --without-win32 --target=GNU_Linux-Intel, and then make install, right? I get it; that's supposed to be humor, right? I shouldn't have said compile and run; just run. Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook Express are now available on both Solaris and HP-UX! This release of Microsoft's award-winning Web browsing technology makes using the Web simpler than ever, more automated, and more flexible to let you use the Web the way you want. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF --
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:03:32AM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and run IE for Unix on a Linux box. Sure, just check out it's source code from cvs.microsoft.com, run ./configure --without-win32 --target=GNU_Linux-Intel, and then make install, right? I get it; that's supposed to be humor, right? Yes, kind of... ;-) I shouldn't have said compile and run; just run. Not even this, actually. As you should have seen yourself, IE is at best available on Solaris and HP-UX but this definitely still rules out Linux. I work a lot with HP-UX at it's very own company's place and neither i nor actually any of my colleages has used or even seen IE on HP-UX. As i'm told it is pretty unsusable on either Solaris and HP-UX because it depends so much on the Win32 API that at least half of windows had to be ported to *NIX to make it crawl^H^H^Hrun on it. Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook Express are now available on both Solaris and HP-UX! This release of Microsoft's award-winning Web browsing technology makes using the Web simpler than ever, more automated, and more flexible to let you use the Web the way you want. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp Isn't this funny? ;-) Cheers, P. *8^)
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:34:27AM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to put up with. I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and run IE for Unix on a Linux box. Sure, just check out it's source code from cvs.microsoft.com, run ./configure --without-win32 --target=GNU_Linux-Intel, and then make install, right? SCNR, P. *8^) Seriously, I heard that KDE has Konquerer, I hope I spell it correctly. How is it as the main browser? -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] - African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany --- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 06:54:57PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Seriously, I heard that KDE has Konquerer, I hope I spell it correctly. How is it as the main browser? I have no idea, since i don't have KDE installed and happen to get along just fine with navigator-standalone. But how about installing it yourself and trying it out? It's free software and just an apt-get command (or two) away: --- snip -- [root]~ apt-cache search konqueror kdebase - KDE core applications [root]~ apt-get install kdebase Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdelibs3-nossl libqt2.2 libssl095a The following NEW packages will be installed: kdebase kdelibs3-nossl libqt2.2 libssl095a 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 181 not upgraded. Need to get 15.5MB of archives. After unpacking 50.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] --- snip -- No, thanks... :-/ Duh, some 50.5MB worth of dependencies just for a web browser is a bit hefty, isn't it? Cheers, P. *8^)
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
I have no idea, since i don't have KDE installed and happen to get along just fine with navigator-standalone. But how about installing it yourself and trying it out? It's free software and just an apt-get command (or two) away: Is Konqueror KDE2? Duh, some 50.5MB worth of dependencies just for a web browser is a bit hefty, isn't it? You're not getting JUST a browser; you're getting all of KDE. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF --
RE: Netscape 4.75 ??
Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to put up with. What about Opera? Jerome
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:27:50PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: I have no idea, since i don't have KDE installed and happen to get along just fine with navigator-standalone. But how about installing it yourself and trying it out? It's free software and just an apt-get command (or two) away: Is Konqueror KDE2? Yes. Duh, some 50.5MB worth of dependencies just for a web browser is a bit hefty, isn't it? You're not getting JUST a browser; you're getting all of KDE. Yes, that's the problem. I wouldn't mind that if i'd been running KDE2 anyway, but i don't. The same is naturally valid for GNOME applications. If one wants to run a GNOME app like gnumeric, there is always this hefty space penalty involved. And since i'm happy running a simple window manager only this is hard to swallow actually. I just don't buy an integrated desktop's benefits when it mainly snatches away large portions of my valuable RAM that i'd rather see used for the apps i'm running. On the other hand though, both KDE2 and GNOME have started to offer really nice stuff lately. :-) Cheers, P. *8^)
Re: Netscape 4.75 ??
Quoth Paul Seelig, Not even this, actually. As you should have seen yourself, IE is at best available on Solaris and HP-UX but this definitely still rules out Linux. I work a lot with HP-UX at it's very own company's place and neither i nor actually any of my colleages has used or even seen IE on HP-UX. As i'm told it is pretty unsusable on either Solaris and HP-UX because it depends so much on the Win32 API that at least half of windows had to be ported to *NIX to make it crawl^H^H^Hrun on it. Our local Sun systems administrator has tried it out on Solaris, and apparently it's pretty horrible. MS didn't do it, from memory, they outsourced it, but I can't thinking of anything that MS has done for *nix that isn't a nightmare (FrontPage Server Extensions spring to mind). FWIW, I've been using one of the M18 nightlies of Mozilla. It's still a little slow to start up, and it will eventually eat all your RAM, but it's very usable. Certainly miles ahead of M17 of Netscape PR2. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, Dead pgpRAcC8UyYc7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Netscape 4.75 ??
I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.75 via the apt-get install. Took forever to download all the files on my 56K dialup. What a great tool apt-get is !!! Wow... Anyhow (there's always an anyhow) when I close Netscape it leaves process running so that I can not fire up another Netscape later on. A ps -ax shows: 622 ? S 0:03 /usr/lib/netscape/475/communicator/communicator-smotif.real http:// 664 ? S 0:00 (dns helper) This doesn't happen very often but it is a pain in the backside to have to ps -ax and kill -9 pid every time I want to run Netscape. Any clues? BTW this also happend on the 4.73 version Running: Debian 2.2 -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: Debian Linux 2.2
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
On 05 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: [snip] I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? [snip] How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato. I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not yielded 4.73. i found upgrading from slink to potato yielded many many non upgraded packages, the system would say it is up to date but if i did a manual install (xchat comes to mind) apt-get install program apt would realize that the program is outdated and upgrade it. odd!! happened on every machine i upgraded. nate Thanks for reply. Now the question is, which netscape package(s) should I ask for? When I upgraded via proposed-updates I got some version of netscape-base4.75 (can't remember which), but there are numerous netscape packages on the site and I don't know which to tell apt-get to fetch. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity. I.A. Richards
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks for reply. Now the question is, which netscape package(s) should I ask for? When I upgraded via proposed-updates I got some version of netscape-base4.75 (can't remember which), but there are numerous netscape packages on the site and I don't know which to tell apt-get to fetch. to be clean i'd remove any existing netscape packages first and install it fresh. i believe the package i have installed is 'communicator'. Package: communicator Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib/web Installed-Size: 22 Maintainer: Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: netscape4.base Version: 1:4.75-1 Depends: communicator-smotif-475, netscape-java-475 Conflicts: netscape-base-406, netscape-base-407, netscape-base-408, netscape-base-45, netscape-base-451, netscape-base-46, netscape-base-461, netscape-base-47, netscape-base-472, netscape-base-473 Description: Meta package that depends on other packages This package depends on the real netscape packages, so as to make things easier for people to install. meta-package: yes i think i got this from security.debian.org im not sure if its available on the main mirrors yet. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:20:04PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: [snip] I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? [snip] How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato. I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not yielded 4.73. Like the kernel, Netscape packages are version-specific; that is to say that different versions are treated as separate packages, not as different versions of the same package. To install the latest statically-linked version of Netscape Communicator, use something like # apt-get install communicator-smotif-475 If you want to track the latest release, try # apt-get install communicator Communicator is a meta-package that depends on the latest statically-linked release; that way if Communicator 4.76 makes it out the door and gets packaged, you should get it along with everything else when you go # apt-get update; apt-get upgrade John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin support:technical services
Netscape 4.75 problems
I've tried to get Netscape 4.75 on my machine and I have trouble with the following: 1.)I am unable to view text/html links. When I try to open the link I get an error that vi won't execute the command. (I forget the actual error message and I don't have 4.75 on my computer right now. 2.)When Netscape is executed to view an image there is a message box that comes up talking about the Huffman encoding and image quality. This really isn't a problem, just an annoyance. What I've done so far is edit my apt.sources file to allow woody packages, then apt-get update - apt-get upgrade This has allowed me to install the 4.75 packages, but I found when trying to remove them, the only way I could successfully remove was to use dselect and ignore the warnings. Any reason I can't use apt-get remove --purge (netscape/communicator)? I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? I had read on this list previously that there was a new .deb package to download and that would fix the problems I mentioned above. I tried it last night with no success. Any help would be appreciated, I'm new to debian package management. thanks
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems Solved!
I figured this one out :-) Put deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free in apt sources.list file and then do the apt-get upgrade apt-get update and presto! the working netscape 4.75 is installed! I've tried it on text links and it seems to work fine
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: [snip] I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? [snip] How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato. I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not yielded 4.73. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity. I.A. Richards
Re: Netscape 4.75 problems
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: [snip] I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? [snip] How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato. I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not yielded 4.73. i found upgrading from slink to potato yielded many many non upgraded packages, the system would say it is up to date but if i did a manual install (xchat comes to mind) apt-get install program apt would realize that the program is outdated and upgrade it. odd!! happened on every machine i upgraded. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the text file (status bar bottom left finished), nothing happens. Any hints? Look at MIME types? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpA69WEMvJ0H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote:
Hi,
with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open
plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive,
everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the
text file (status bar bottom left finished), nothing happens.
The same here, if you run netscape from a xterm you will notice an error
message like: Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{
Checking the /etc/mailcap file you'll see entries for text which use
the %{..} feature of mailcap. Somehow netscape has troubles with it.
Could you try with the tarball one if it gives the same error and whether
it uses the mailcap file at all?
--
groetjes, carel
Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files
Hi, with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the text file (status bar bottom left finished), nothing happens. Any hints? Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
netscape 4.75 package has no netscape command?
Due to the vulnerability of my old netscape 4.08, I decided to upgrade to the woody version (Version: 4.75-1). I installed netscape-base-4, netscape-base-475 and netscape-java-475. The only file under a bin directory is netscape-remote. There is no netscape command! Am I missing something obvious? (I'd check the BTS, but I don't have netscape anymore! :-) Thanks, Peter
Re: netscape 4.75 package has no netscape command?
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Due to the vulnerability of my old netscape 4.08, I decided to upgrade to the woody version (Version: 4.75-1). I installed netscape-base-4, netscape-base-475 and netscape-java-475. The only file under a bin directory is netscape-remote. There is no netscape command! Am I missing something obvious? Yes I was! I was missing netscape-smotif-475! Peter
Re: netscape 4.75 package has no netscape command?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Due to the vulnerability of my old netscape 4.08, I decided to upgrade to the woody version (Version: 4.75-1). I installed netscape-base-4, netscape-base-475 and netscape-java-475. The only file under a bin directory is netscape-remote. There is no netscape command! Am I missing something obvious? Yes, you did it wrong. apt-get install communicator-smotif-475(or navigator). This has ALWAYS been the way netscape has been done. And, in any case, I am no longer the maintainer. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-
Re: netscape 4.75 package has no netscape command?
Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Due to the vulnerability of my old netscape 4.08, I decided to upgrade to the woody version (Version: 4.75-1). I installed netscape-base-4, netscape-base-475 and netscape-java-475. The only file under a bin directory is netscape-remote. There is no netscape command! Am I missing something obvious? Yes, you did it wrong. apt-get install communicator-smotif-475(or navigator). This has ALWAYS been the way netscape has been done. And, in any case, I am no longer the maintainer. have to jump in here, i never had to use the communicator-smotif-* until recently, before that i always used apt-get install netscape4 and it always worked!! would be nice to have that netscape4 package back too since it relied on a self download of netscape which allowed me to install any netscape4 version i wanted rather then rely on the stuff in the package(easy upgrades, 128bit support etc). nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0500, Brad wrote:
In case anyone would find it useful, it's not very difficult to package
the subject. I must assume a i386 libc6 system, since i have no others
to test the instructions. If anyone else would, post an addendum. You'll
need the approrpiate packages for building deb files installed
(dpkg-dev, debhelper, that sort of thing).
First, apt-get source netscape-base-473, and download the Netscape
tarballs for Navigator/Communicator (or both, depending on what you
want) from netscape.com. Go see a movie while all this downloads. For
reference, about 200M should be enough to hold all the files.
[...] etc.
Hi,
I converted Brad recipe (only for communicator) to a script (attached at end).
Mirek
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
DC=communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2
D=netscape4.75-4.75
tar xpzf communicator-v475-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
dpkg-source -x netscape4.73_4.73-19.dsc
mv netscape4.73-4.73 $D
cat EOF ftmp
netscape4.75 (4.75-0) unstable; urgency=low
* Strong crypto is good!
-- You [EMAIL PROTECTED] `date '+%a, %d %b %Y %T %z'`
EOF
cat $D/debian/changelog ftmp
mv ftmp $D/debian/changelog
cat $D/debian/installer |
sed -e 's/for LIBC in 5 6;do/for LIBC in 6;do/g' \
-e 's/4.73/4.75/g' -e 's/473/475/g' -e 's/LIBC:-5/LIBC:-6/' ftmp
mv ftmp $D/debian/installer
Ds=$D/src/4.75
mkdir $Ds
for x in \
README.install jae40.jar joptio40.jar resource.jar \
ifc11.jar java40.jar jsd10.jar scd10.jar \
iiop10.jar jio40.jar ldap40.jar ;
do cp -a $DC/$x $Ds; done
mkdir $Ds/{communicator,navigator,i386}
mkdir $Ds/i386/{6,communicator,navigator}
cp -a $DC/{nethelp-v475,spellchk-v475}.nif $Ds/communicator
#fake navigator
cp -a $DC/nethelp-v475.nif $Ds/navigator
cp -a $DC/vreg $Ds/i386/6
mkdir $Ds/i386/6/{communicator,navigator}
cp -a $DC/netscape-v475.nif $Ds/i386/6/communicator
#fake navigator
cp -a $DC/netscape-v475.nif $Ds/i386/6/navigator
(
cd $D
debian/rules clean
fakeroot debian/rules binary
)
#fake navigator
rm navigator-*.deb
Re: Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?
Mirek Kwasniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I converted Brad recipe (only for communicator) to a script (attached at end). Not needed any more. Netscape 4.75 is in incoming just now, and it *has* 128-bit encryption. Greetings, joachim
Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?
In case anyone would find it useful, it's not very difficult to package the subject. I must assume a i386 libc6 system, since i have no others to test the instructions. If anyone else would, post an addendum. You'll need the approrpiate packages for building deb files installed (dpkg-dev, debhelper, that sort of thing). First, apt-get source netscape-base-473, and download the Netscape tarballs for Navigator/Communicator (or both, depending on what you want) from netscape.com. Go see a movie while all this downloads. For reference, about 200M should be enough to hold all the files. In the netscape4.73-4.73 directory, edit debian/changelog to add an entry at the top something like this: === start entry === netscape4.75 (4.75-0) unstable; urgency=low * Strong crypto is good! -- You [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:46:14 -0500 end entry Also, since we don't particularly want to build a libc5 version, edit debian/installer and change all lines reading for LIBC in 5 6;do to for LIBC in 6;do. While you're here, change all occurances of 4.73 or 473 to 4.75 or 475. Toss off a quick debian/rules clean to rebuild the control file with the new version number. Now, we turn to the netscape sources. Change into netscape4.73-4.73/src and create a directory '4.75' (you can remove the 4.73 directory if you'd like). Now, from either the Communicator or Navigator tarballs, copy these files (they're the same in both): README.install jae40.jar joptio40.jar resource.jar ifc11.jar java40.jar jsd10.jar scd10.jar iiop10.jar jio40.jar ldap40.jar Create the directories 'communicator', 'navigator', and 'i386'. From the Communicator tarball, copy nethelp-v475.nif and spellchk-v475.nif into 'communicator'. From the Navigator tarball, copy nethelp-v475.nif into 'navigator'. If you don't want one or the other, just copy the 4.73 versions and throw away the debs in the end. In i386, create directories '6', 'communicator', and 'navigator'. In 6, copy vreg from either tarball, and create directories 'communicator' and 'navigator'. From the appropriate tarballs, copy netscape-v475.nif into these two directories. (For future reference, these seem to be the only two files that differ between the 128-bit and 40-bit tarballs.) Finally, mv the directory netscape4.73-4.73 to netscape4.75-4.75, cd in, and fakeroot debian/rules binary. Install whichever set of the resulting debs suits your system. HTH, and HTDBYS -- finger for GPG public key. pgp87ZKjbIxYq.pgp Description: PGP signature
