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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:46:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Jerry Lei <tylei@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: about Netscape
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002251341250.98826-100000@ntstn.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000225192510.93289.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Jerry Lei wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:

> Hi,
> 
> As the question above, I have aready added Netscape communicator4.61. I do 
> find the communicator4.61(--r-xr-xr-x) under /usr/local/bin. I have setenv 
> MOZILLA_HOME. When I set command netscape at the command line, nothing 
> happened. The questions are:

What do you mean by "nothing"?  Did you get any error messages?  Do you
now see a file named "netscape.core" in the current directory?  If you
really did see NOTHING and Netscape didn't dump core, you have experienced
a very strange phenomenon indeed.

> 1. How do I install a netscape?

Sounds like you may have successfully installed it already.

You ARE running X11, are you not?  As Netscape is a graphical program by
nature, it requires a running X seat to function.  If you installed
XFree86 when you installed the operating system, startx should get you
going.

> 2. Since I can get netscape from Internet like any common software described 
> by installation guide. How do I install a common software by using port 
> collection? Installation guide doesn't talk detailed enough to follow.

If you installed the ports distribution with the operating system,
installing an individual port is simple.  If you have the -STABLE ports
installed:

# cd /usr/ports/www/netscape47-communicator && make all install

Yes, you must do this as root.  You may, however, RUN Netscape as a normal
user after it has been installed.

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