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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD Date: 13 Nov 1996 00:54:47 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 45 Message-ID: <56b68n$am1@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com> <565u9v$38o@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> <kheller2.9.002FDEE9@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.162 In article <kheller2.9.002FDEE9@ix.netcom.com>, Karl Heller <kheller2@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >In article <565u9v$38o@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) writes: >>From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) >>Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD >>Date: 10 Nov 1996 17:08:15 -0800 > >>In article <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com>, >>John S Flowers <jflowers@maas-neotek.org> wrote: >>>Has anyone successfully rin Netscape (any version about 2.0) on FreeBSD 2.1.5 >>or >>>2.2? > >>I've run 1.1, 2.0, and 3.01 on various versions of FreeBSD. > >>>Netscape appears to run, but there are dozens of error messages that I get >>while >>>running it. I realize that Netscape was created for BSDi more than FreeBSD, >>but >>>surely there's a way to run it. > > > > What kind of error messages? Netscape dumps a lot of complaints about >your x environment unless you set it up with one of the x files that comes >with netscape. > > Somewhere in the install/readme file it says netscape looks in a default >location for some config file for x. Make sure that is correct. > > Boy.. that sounded so vague. I'm on a W95 crap machine right now and >can't check it for you. Very important: you *must* create a symbolic link "X11" to your X11R6 directory. Move the "nls" directory to /usr/X11/lib/X11. Put the java stuff in ~/.netscape. That should do it for you, I think. This stuff really should go into the next FAQ. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |