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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:51:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209122247020.47794-100000@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020913041850.GA72202@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Bob Bomar wrote:

> I went to install Netscape6 from the ports, but its marked
> as forbidden, so I pulled the browsers from netscape.
> But when I went to install various versions (6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, and 7)
> they all require glibc 2.1.3 and 2.2.  After reading some 
> archives, I found that glibc is not and will not be a part
> of FBSD libraries. 

Install Mozilla, which is the modern-day Netscape and actually has a few
things they've taken out of Netscape 7.  The FreeBSD native version
(/usr/ports/www/mozilla) will work (after a long compile).

(It's been a while; if I'm not misremembering, the Linux-Mozilla version
(/usr/ports/www/linux-mozilla) will also want those libraries, which are
in linux_base (7)).  After installing portupgrade, you can use pkgdb -F
to tell it to use the linux_base-6 libraries instead, which are more
compatible with Java.)

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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