From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 17:25:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26015 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25750 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:24:51 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA09418; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:54:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980417095447.C1090@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:54:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ken Seggerman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Netscape "by the book" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ken Seggerman on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:47:10AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 April 1998 at 10:47:10 -0400, 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. Not really. The port was correct when the CD-ROM was pressed. It's now out of date. > 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" I'm not sure what you mean here. > Perhaps it is complete, but the make install program doesn't know this. > > I can't even find a FreeBSD directory on ftp.netscape.com. > > 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. Did you check out the port like I suggested? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message