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RE: help with netscape 4.5 upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sun Nov 29 00:43:30 1998
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981128222736.kcsmart@microlink.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:43:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 29-Nov-98 Frank N. Stein complained about RE: help with netscape 4.5
upgrade:
> 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.
Forgot to address your other questions.
To upgrade, it doesn't matter what directory you are in. Just be in the
directory where the new version was downloaded. The rpms will know wh
ere to put the files automatically. The separate netscape-communicator
directories are simply where the rpms put the files.
As for using which to find netscape, that isn't needed either unless
you install from a tarball, which you won't be doing if you download
the rpm files.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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