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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:41:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      rorsten@ualberta.ca
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/18000: All Netscape 4 try to reinstall X, XFree86-aoutlibs thankfully also broken.
Message-ID:  <200004140741.AAA09841@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         18000
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       All Netscape 4 try to reinstall X, XFree86-aoutlibs thankfully also broken.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 14 00:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Reid Orsten
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD dhcp-204-107.henday.ualberta.ca 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #5: Thu Apr 13 18:56:43 MDT 2000     root@dhcp-204-107.henday.ualberta.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/XMONKEYX  i386
>Description:
This will apply for any machine, I think.

When you try to make install ports/www/netscape4*, it will try to
install the aout version of X.  On my machine, it fails dismally.
>How-To-Repeat:
as root: [some netscape] = any netscape port
cd /usr/ports/www/[some netscape]
make install

>Fix:
Get and use the BSDi version of netscape instead of the FreeBSD version.
Manually install by decompressing it and running the ns-install script.
(let it go in /usr/local/netscape as it wishes and then make a symlink
to the executable like
'ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/bin/netscape')

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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