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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!news.nordwest.de!lemur.nord.de!dagobert.lemur.nord.de!thomas From: THOMAS Wintergerst <thomas@dagobert.lemur.nord.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 19:49:38 +0100 Organization: Lemuria Private Computing Lines: 37 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960330194315.16407D-100000@dagobert.lemur.nord.de> References: <199603291546.KAA17745@cais.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.lemur.nord.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199603291546.KAA17745@cais.cais.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16223 comp.unix.bsd.misc:583 comp.windows.x.i386unix:19642 On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Michael Curry wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:46:03 -0500 > From: Michael Curry <cais.cais.com!mcgraw@picard.nord.de> > To: Thomas Wintergerst <lemur.nord.de!thomas@picard.nord.de> > Newgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, comp.unix.bsd.misc, > comp.windows.x.i386unix > Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD > [...] > > Hmm....reminding you that I make no claim to expertise in ANYthing > Unix-like, but I never did any make;make install. I retrieved the > netscape (insert agonizingly long file name here) file from > ftp.netscape.com, used mc to extract into /usr, moved the executable into > /usr/X11R6/bin, ran netscape, got a plaintive screen about X11, created > the symlink, and it worked. I may eventually move nls to some > appropriate location, but so far the functionality is sufficient. > > And it certainly works better than Netscape under NT. ;-) > > If you have read any of my posts, you may have come to the conclusion > that there are many things about FBSD that I am not doing "right". But, > please forgive me; I am still in the "playing around" stage. > > Sorry Michael, my fault. I forgot to say, I am installing the software from the packages with "pkg_add" or most often through the "ports" tree. For software that is in the ports it is the easiest way to install (certainly after "pkg_add"). And as you can see there can be a couple of problems less if you do it that way. ;-) Thomas