Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Netscape "by the book" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416130138.7029Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980416102620.10516A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > > So, I am not the only one with this problem. > > I guess I will have to ditch the port I have and download one. So many > Netscape ports, so little time! > > This is appaarently not a bug or shortcoming in the book, but an error in > the port on the CD-ROM. > > What I don't get is why, if the port on the CD-ROM is presumably complete, > the make install process searches for another complete port: > > "communicator-v403b8-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz" Well, when the CDROM was pressed, that was the current version of Netscape. However, the world moves on and that version was deleted in favor of newer releases. > I can't even find a FreeBSD directory on ftp.netscape.com. Look under devel/. > Navigating the directory trees of ftp sites is a little bit slower and > more tedious from the command line, which is why I want to get Netscape up > and running. Try ncftp2. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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