[101746] in RedHat Linux List
Re: help with netscape 4.5 upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 29 02:17:52 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:15:27 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Hi Tom,
Let me clarify why I suggested doing #which netscape...
It would be useful if your existing netscape was installed from
netscape-something.tar.gz, just so you can see where your
current netscape is located.
If your old netscape was installed from an rpm, you don't
need to bother with the 'which'. When you upgrade using
rpm -Uvh netscape-communicator.xxx.rpm netscape-common.xxx.rpm
it will automatically do everything right.
You always need the netscape-common rpm.
Then pick ONE of netscape-communicator or netscape-navigator.
The communicator archive contains everything thats available.
The navigator archive is missing email, html editor, etc, and
its smaller, and hopefully faster. If you have over 24mb of memory,
go for communicator, since you might like the email tool, especially
if you have used Windows quite a bit.
Tom wrote:
> Hey listers,
> I hope that you can all bear with me, I am very new to linux (installed
> 5.1 last week) and I need help with an item that was just addressed a
> few days ago. I quote a piece of it below:
> >1. How do I successfully update Communicator 4.07 to 4.5?
> > Note where netscape is on your path:
> > $ which netscape
> > # rpm -Uvh netscape-common-4.50-1.i386.rpm
> > netscape-communicator-4.50-1.i386.rpm
> > Get these from a nearby mirror: http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html
> > or from ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386
> 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 ?
> Thank you in advance,
> -Tom
> btw, I have been reading this newsgroup for about 2 months now to help
> me get a feel for
> RedHat linux and the community that uses it. I have been impressed with
> the amount of information that gets passed amongst the members here and
> decided to use RH5.1 as a place to begin. Thankyou for all the good info
> and I look forward to much, much more 8-)
>
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Jan Carlson
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Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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