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Subject: Re: Netscape on FreeBSD
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:21:13 GMT
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Norbert Roeschmann (norbert@menetekel.kiel.org) wrote:
: Sorry to say, but it does not work here. I'm running FreeBSD-2.05 and
: tried netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z. I did any of the
: steps mentioned above, but netscape core-dumps on startup with segmentation
: fault. Netscape1.0 works fine. Do you have any idea ?
I also run FreeBSD 2.05, but have no problems running netscape-v112 at
all. What I did was:
1. 'ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11'
2. In /usr/X11/lib/X11/ 'mkdir nls'
3. I then extracted the tar.Z into a temp directory
4. I copied the netscape binary to /usr/X11/bin ('cp netscape /usr/X11/bin')
5. I copied the contents of the nls directory in my temp directory to
/usr/X11/lib/X11/nls (the files are: 'C' and 'nls.dir')
Optionally, if would like, you can edit the 'Netscape.ad' file that
comes in the tar, rename it to 'Netscape' and copy it to:
/usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/
I did nothing else but the above things and Netscape v1.12 works
flawlessly with my FreeBSD 2.0.5.