Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:30:13 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3? Message-ID: <20040101102555.E4424@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401011027270.26050@panix1.panix.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401011027270.26050@panix1.panix.com>
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ken Seggerman wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.3 [...] That's really old, by the way. > Do I untar and unzip it first and hope that any installation instructions > will work on FreeBSD? Leave it as a tar.gz, and install it with pkg_add, > or rpm? Does pkg_add netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz work? > The FreeBSD Handbook goes into great detail about how to brand elf > binaries, how to install specific software like Mathematica and Oracle, > but doesn't say how to install an ordinary Linux binary or how to install > Netscape. The instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html seem like a good first step. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com
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