How do I install Netscape Linux binary on FreeBSD 4.3?

[David Fleck]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ken Seggerman wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.3 [...]

That's really old, by the way.

> 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?

Does

pkg_add netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz

work?


> 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.


The instructions at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html

seem like a good first step.

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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com