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- Installation Information For Communicator 4.04
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- The recommended way to install this software is to use 'ns-install',
- a relatively simple Bourne shell script that will properly extract
- and install all the files now present in this release. It also runs
- a command ('vreg') that enables you to receive future maintenance
- releases and product updates for individual components that might
- change between major product revisions. It does this by creating
- or updating a small file to keep track of the product name, version,
- and installation directory. This information is not broadcast to any
- external entity (including Netscape), and is used only by Communicator.
-
- If you choose not to use 'ns-install', the following steps will help
- you manually install the contents of this release (or rearrange the
- contents in order to re-package them using another installer format,
- such as RPM):
-
- 1) create the directory in which you want the release to live (we
- will assume /usr/local/netscape for the purposes of this example)
-
- 2) mv *.nif /usr/local/netscape
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- 3) mv *.jar /usr/local/netscape/java/classes
-
- 4) mv vreg /usr/local/netscape (if you want ASD (i.e., "push") to work)
-
- 5) cd /usr/local/netscape
-
- 6) Extract the contents of each .nif file with 'gzip -dc file | tar -xf -'.
-
- Do this if you don't have a .netscape directory and have never used
- the product before:
-
- 7) mv bookmark.htm ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html (or use ln -s)
-
- The following step is optional (see above):
-
- 8) echo 'Communicator,4.04.0.97310,/usr/local/netscape' > /tmp/infile
- vreg /usr/local/netscape/registry /tmp/infile
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- It is recommended that you make use of the MOZILLA_HOME environment
- variable in your .cshrc, .profile, or equivalent. MOZILLA_HOME should
- be set to the directory in which you installed Communicator.
-
- For example, 'setenv MOZILLA_HOME /usr/local/netscape'.
-
- If you intend to move the 'netscape' binary into another directory
- (like /usr/local/bin), then you must set MOZILLA_HOME in order for
- Communicator to find all of its components. (MOZILLA_HOME would be
- set to the installation directory in this case, NOT the directory in
- which the binary resides.)
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