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RE: help with netscape 4.5 upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sun Nov 29 00:25:02 1998
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:27:36 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 29-Nov-98 Tom complained about help with netscape 4.5 upgrade:
> My question is threefold. When I look at
> ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386 I see that
> there are 3 netscape rpms there, netscape-common,
> netscape-communicator(which I have already downloaded) and
> netscape-navigator. Do I need one of these three, or a combination ?
> I see that I need to use the "rpm" command with -Uvh and use it in
> the
> directory(?) that the old netscape is in, but when I use "find" I
> notice
> that netscape-communicator is in both /usr/bin and /usr/lib and I
> don't
> know which directory to use the rpm -Uvh in.
> Also, in the post that I quoted the author mentions "$ which
> netscape"... what is that for ?
You need netscape-common no matter what.
The netscape-navigator is just that: no mail, no news, only navigator.
The netscape-communicator contains everything (including the bloat
[personal opinion]). I've used only common and navigator, as well as
common and communicator.
If you want everything, you don't _NEED_ navigator. If you want only
the browser you don't _NEED_ communicator. If you use communicator it
won't hurt anything if navigator is installed. But, it isn't necessary.
I was never able to get a navigator-only session if communicator was
installed. It kept bringing up all of the little icons and had access
to mail and news.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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