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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:43:17 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape
Message-ID:  <20001026004317.B67073@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <39F79202.2A315F40@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:08:02PM -0700
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:08:02PM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote:
> The list of netscape ports in /uar/ports/www all dated October 19 post
> cvsup:
> =============================================================
> bsdi-netscape47-communicator
> bsdi-netscape47-communicator.us
> bsdi-netscape47-navigator
> bsdi-netscape47-navigator.us
> linux-netscape4
> linux-netscape47-communicator
> linux-netscape47-navigator
> linux-netscape6

These are not going to work for you as they're i386-only.

> netscape-remote
> netscape-wrapper

These two will work fine and are now required.

> netscape3
> netscape3-gold
> netscape4-communicator
> netscape4-communicator.us
> netscape4-navigator

These are not going to work for you as they're i386-only.

> netscape47-communicator.us
> netscape47-navigator.us

These two are dead now.

> netscape47-communicator
> netscape47-navigator

Either of these is what you want to install.



> ==========================================
> 
> Script started on Mon Oct 23 14:18:26 2000
> Felix# make install
> 
> >> communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.75/unix/supported/dec_unix40/complete_install/.
> 
> Receiving communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.t (13580766 bytes):
> 100%
> 13580766 bytes transferred in 111.8 seconds (118.67 kBps)
> ===>  Extracting for netscape-communicator-4.75
> >> Checksum OK for communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz.
...snip...
> ===>   Returning to build of netscape-communicator-4.75
> ===>   netscape-communicator-4.75 depends on shared library: X11.6 -
> found
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> This is the netscape web-surfboard.  Please read the file
> "/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms.
> 
> Note: If Java applets fail to display.  Type this as root:
> 		cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> 		/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
> 		chmod 444 fonts.dir
>       And then exit and restart your X server.
> ===>   Registering installation for netscape-communicator-4.75


This is good.  You got Netscape Communicator properly installed.


> I removed the TRU64/v4 version and deinstalled the one installed from
> ports, then reinstalled the port. It still works only with IP numbers.


Does running ``nslookup'' work as expected?


> Exiting Navigator (launched from a term window in X/KDE) leaves this
> message:
> 
> KCharset: Wrong charset!
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct

I always get this too.


> ================================
> Installing XFree86 v4 appears not to be a viable option:

I still use the XFree86 3.3.6 server on my Alphas.  You might want to
give it a shot.  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/XF86336.alpha


-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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