How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3?

[T Kellers]

I think that's the wrong verfsion of linux-netscape, you probably need:

communicator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
or 
navigator-v48-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz

both can be installed via the ports at /usr/ports/www/netscape48-communicator

or 

/usr/ports/www/netscape48-navigator

(if you have ports collection installed)

Note that the ports are supposed to work with the latest releases of the OS  
(currently 4.9 and 5.1); you may need to upgrade your OS to 4.9 to get any 
ports to run.   FreeBSD 5.1 is still a development release; if you upgrade 
stick to the FreeBSD 4.9 path.

HTH

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

On Thursday 01 January 2004 10:38 am, Ken Seggerman wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.3 running on an old slow laptop which is running
> low on disk space.
>
> I had Mozilla 5.0 0.8.1 and Netscape-communicator 4.76 installed.
>
> Netscape was a package off of the FreeBSD 4.3 CDROM. I may have downloaded
> Mozilla and installed it as a package, or built it as a port. I don't
> remember.
>
> Up until quite recently Mozilla worked very slowly, took up a lot of space
> on the hard drive and 97%  of the CPU. I don't think Netscape
> worked once I installed Mozilla, but trying to start Netscape resulted in
> the following error messages:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/netscape
> /usr/libexec/ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: minor version -1
> older than expected 0, using it anyway
> ld.so failed: bad magic number in "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6"
>
> I did pkg_delete on Netscape and reinstalled it with pkg_add from the
> CDROM.
>
> When I tried to start Netscape, I got the same bad magic number error.
>
> Then when I tried to start Mozilla, the hard drive rattled for about five
> minutes, Mozilla started up, got a PID, used up 95% of the CPU, but it
> never (I've waited 15 minutes) opened a window. Perhaps my pkg_delete and
> pkg_add of Netscape stepped on something in Mozilla.
>
> I pkg_deleted mozilla, netscape-communicator, netscape-wrapper, and
> netscpae-remote.
>
> I went to the FreeBSD web site where they said that the FreeBSD version of
> Mozilla is huge and slow, and recommended Netscape instead. The latest
> version of Netscape for download is Linux version called:
>
> netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz.
>
> My laptop is set for running Linux executables:
> #linux
> linux driver already loaded
>
> but I have no idea what to do with this file.
>
> Do I untar and unzip it first and hope that any installation instructions
> will work on FreeBSD? Leave it as a tar.gz, and install it with pkg_add,
> or rpm?
>
> The FreeBSD Handbook goes into great detail about how to brand elf
> binaries, how to install specific software like Mathematica and Oracle,
> but doesn't say how to install an ordinary Linux binary or how to install
> Netscape.
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>
> Ken
>
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