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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.hk.net!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!karon.dynas.se!karon.dynas.se!not-for-mail From: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:36:38 +0100 Organization: Dynasoft AB Lines: 62 Message-ID: <56d0v6$2oo@spirit.dynas.se> References: <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com> <565u9v$38o@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> <1996Nov13.140116.3593@nosc.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: spirit.dynas.se cg67cs@nosc.mil (USS SHILOH) writes: >tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) wrote: >>In article <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com>, >>John S Flowers <jflowers@maas-neotek.org> wrote: >>>Has anyone successfully rin Netscape (any version about 2.0) on FreeBSD 2.1.5 or >>>2.2? >>I've run 1.1, 2.0, and 3.01 on various versions of FreeBSD. >>>Netscape appears to run, but there are dozens of error messages that I get while >>>running it. I realize that Netscape was created for BSDi more than FreeBSD, but >>>surely there's a way to run it. >>Did you read the README file that came with your netscape tarball or did you >>just run it out of the box? There is some information there that will help >>you. >I'm having a similar problem with the BSDi version of Netscape 3.01. >And yes, I followed the README file, copied the nls directory and >XKeySymDB file tot he right spot, even set environment variables >pointing to them, and I still get warnings about imminent crashes and >bad keysyms. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks No, I don't know what your problems might be, but here is what I use as a wrapper script (e.g. as "/usr/local/bin/netscape"): ----------8<-------------------- #!/bin/sh DIR=/usr/local/lib/netscape_3 XNLSPATH=$DIR/nls XKEYSYMDB=$DIR/XKeysymDB CLASSPATH=$HOME/.netscape:$DIR/java/classes export XKEYSYMDB XNLSPATH CLASSPATH exec $DIR/netscape "$@" ----------8<-------------------- This is on a stock FreeBSD 2.1.5R (modulo running "mkfontdir" in one of the X11 font directories, maybe "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc". Should be in the mail archives - or just do it in all of them). The "DIR" in the script is just an untarred BSDI netscape. When I upgrade, I unpack a new one and change the value of DIR (or unpack it in place of the old one). No files have migrated anywhere outside the netscape directory, there are no extra symbolic links in the X11 directories, I have no extra environment variables, no nothing. Just the wrapper script above. I may have overlooked something, but so far this has worked OK for me, with netscape 2.0 & 3.0. Maybe there should be a Netscape "port" with something like this? For Netscape 1.1 I did get tons of warnings, so the wrapper redirected error output to $HOME/.netscape-errors. Hope this can be of some help, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_____________________________________________mikko@dynas.se DynaSoft