From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 05:44:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25755 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 05:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-k56flex-0079.jumpnet.com [207.8.6.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25722 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 05:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id HAA21580; Tue, 12 May 1998 07:41:02 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: "Hector A. Dominguez" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: netscape communicator References: From: Dave Marquardt Date: 12 May 1998 07:41:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells"'s message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 19:15:08 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: <857m3rk6g2.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jason C. Wells" writes: > On Mon, 11 May 1998, Hector A. Dominguez wrote: > >I just installed the following version of netscape communicator in my FreeBSD Pc (v2.2.2.). > > > >After tarring the .gz file, installation was carried through the ns-install shell, and appears to be succesful with no error messages. Then, when I "startx" and type "netscape" from the xterm, I get the "netscape: Command not found" message. > >The installation shell created the /usr/local/netscape folder, and the netscape* is in this folder too....... Any idea what I am doing wrong and need to correct?? > > The /usr/local/netscape directory is probably not in your $PATH. You can > edit your path -or- > > 'ln -s /usr/local/bin/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape' No, that's backwards. You mean ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape > Use pkg_add instead of manually installing netscape. Yes, that works well for me. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message