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#! rnews 2526 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!hookup!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!news.nordwest.de!lemur.nord.de!usenet From: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:28:38 +0100 Organization: Lemuria Private Computing Lines: 34 Message-ID: <315A69D6.41C67EA6@lemur.nord.de> References: <4j97mk$h68$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> <4j9ddh$rtk@news2.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.lemur.nord.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16499 comp.unix.bsd.misc:604 comp.windows.x.i386unix:19681 McGraw-Hill CEC wrote: > > Tim Trampedach (100322.3235@CompuServe.COM) wrote: > : Hello everyone! > > : I am relatively new to UNIX. I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on a 100 with > : X-Windows installed. I have a direct internet connection and > : currently have the machine running as an http server from inetd. I > : recently downloaded netscape for BSDI from ftp.netscape.com, since I > : want to access the web with it. Supposedly, FreeBSD is BSDI binary > : compatible and after figuring out that netscape needs to be > : installed in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory so that it can be called > : upon and making sure that the /nls directory is put in the right > : place, I cannot open Netscape. I get a 'Broken Pipe' error (I think > : that was it!). Have I letf part of the installation out? Do I need > : to make special entries somewhere? Does anyone have any experience > : with this? > > You may have already discovered this (it doesn't take long after > reading the Netscape readmes), but Netscape believes in X11, not X11R6. > With all directories and files in the right places, you still need a > symbolic link like so (with /usr the current working directory): > > ln -s X11R6 X11 Hello, I run netscape, too, but I dont't have this symbolic link. I just got the netscape distribution file and moved it into the ports/distfiles directory. The only thing I had to change was the name of the distribution file in the makefile for "netscape2". After a "make; make install" netscape now runs without problems. Thomas