Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:22:07 +0200 From: "Oliver Fehr" <oliver.fehr@ofehr.com> To: "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problem with netscape 4.75 Message-ID: <ICEJIODGDNKLAKFMLGACMEJLCBAA.oliver.fehr@ofehr.com> In-Reply-To: <14763.45723.721917.417418@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Wow++ I did what you suggested and: It works! I've removed things bevor but I must have missed some of it. BTW: It DID NOT run the installation script blindly, it's even worse: My eyes were open when I did it - it was very late, or early, however 8) Thanx Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:17 PM To: Oliver Fehr Cc: obrien@freebsd.org; freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problem with netscape 4.75 Oliver Fehr writes: > Netscape Communicator 4.75. > The system was cvsuped and completely rebuilt from 4.1-STABLE about a week > ago. Ports are also up to date. /usr/compat/osf1 is there. > I tried 'ns-install' first then 'make deinstall' and 'make install' Running ns-install almost certainly screwed things up beyond belief by creating some osf1 style X directories in the base filesystem. You should NEVER blindly run installation scripts for commercial apps running on a foreign ABI; this is why we have a ports collection. I'd suggest deleting the netscape & osf1_base packages. Then rm -rf the folling directories and/or links /compat/osf1 /usr/compat/osf1 /usr/lib/X11 /usr/bin/X11 Now re-install osf1_base from the ports collection. Then install netscape from the ports collection. I'm not sure if the above is enough. If its not, re-do the package removals & rm -rf's. Then carefully look at the ns-install program and try to remove any traces of what it may have installed, including directories. Good luck, Drew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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