[18205] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape won't start
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Aug 28 15:06:23 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@mit.edu>
cc: Francis R Carr <fcarr@mit.edu>, bug-infoagents@mit.edu
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The Linux version of Netscape on Athena has been changed to one more
appropriate for all Linux users. It will be available for general use
tomorrow morning. Let me know if this still doesn't solve the problem.
-Todd Belton
On 25 Aug 2000, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> <fcarr@MIT.EDU> (Francis R Carr) writes:
>
> > I presume that by using Netscape 4.75, some config file has changed, and
> > now 4.75 is my default version. I also presume that either my Linux
> > kernel or Redhat-Athena version is too old to support 4.75 properly.
>
> The binary you were trying to run requires the newer version of Linux
> which is installed on the cluster Dells. Until the infoagents
> maintainers install something more appropriate, you can run an older
> release of Netscape 4 by running the following commands at the athena%
> prompt:
>
> add infoagents
> netscape-4.61 &
>
> [Note to infoagents maintainers: the Linux binary you have now is
> specific to i386_linux22. When I looked at Netscape's website, I
> found two alternative binaries: 4.75 built for "Linux 2.0"
> (i386_linux2) and 4.74 built for "Linux 2.0 (glibc)" (which probably
> corresponds to i386_linux3). I don't know offhand which is a better
> choice in terms of plugins.]
