Netscape 6 contd...

[Dennis J. Eberl]

"[Darth] Snowbeam" wrote:

> > I must confess to never having installed any software that wasn't put
> > into an RPM or Debian package. I downloaded the tar.gz file from
> > Netscape. What do I have to do to install it?
>
> Well this is a beta so no installation of it is really required. Do the
> following:
>
> > tar zxvf netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
>
> Once unzipped/tarred:
>
> > cd package/
> > ./netscape &

Maybe it isn't needed, but a little clarification on the above.

1) Download the ...tar.gz to a directory to which you want the netscape
directory be a subdirectory. Let's call it /usr/local/foo

2) After downloading the file into foo, cd to /usr/local/foo and do a

. . . foo ] # tar zxvf netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz

3) Do an ls in foo and discover a new subdirectory called
netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.

(Later, when you are sure everything is working Ok, you
can delete the downloaded netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
file, leaving only the new /usr/local/foo/netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2
directory.)

4) From foo, cd down into the new subdirectory:

. . . foo ] #cd netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2

That's what cd package/ means.

5) From down in /usr/local/foo/netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2
execute the line

. . . foo/netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2 ] # ./netscape &

NOTE:

a) prefaceing the name of the executable (i.e., netscape, in this case) with dot
slash
(./) tells the shell to execute any file named netscape in the current directory

rather than first searching the default paths looking (and possibly finding)
another binary called netscape.

b) adding a space and and ampersand (" &") after the name of the executable
tells the shell to execute it as a background process, thus freeing up your
terminal for continued use. Without the " &", the prompt would not return after
you
hit return to execute the line. That would force you to open another terminal.

You may already know this, Micah, but it doesn't hurt to go over it for
others who may not.

Dennis