From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 13:03:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29401 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:02:49 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA07161; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ken Seggerman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Netscape "by the book" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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