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From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (McGraw-Hill CEC)
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Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD
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Date: 26 Mar 1996 18:35:29 GMT
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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