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- Netscape 3.0 (X11)
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-
- As of 3.0b5, the Netscape Navigator comes only in gzip format. Though gzip
- is available on many Unix systems, some (for whatever reason) may not have
- it. If this is the case on your system, you can download a pre-built gzip
- binary (and/or source) from the URL
-
- ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu
-
- * To unpack a gzip-compressed tar file into the current directory, use some
- variation of the following command:
-
- gzip -dc the-file.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
-
-
- The CoolTalk helper application is no longer included in the Navigator
- distribution. CoolTalk is now individually available for download in
-
- ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/cooltalk/unix
-
-
- Release notes for this version of Netscape are available on-line. After
- starting the program, select "Release Notes" from the "Help" menu. This
- will take you to the URL
-
- http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/relnotes/unix-3.0.html
-
- which lists new features and known problems of this release.
-
-
- To submit bugs or other feedback, use the "How To Give Feedback" option, also
- on the "Help" menu, which will take you to the URL
-
- http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/auto_bug.cgi
-
- If for some reason you cannot submit feedback using that form, you may send
- email to x_cbug@netscape.com. Please be as specific as possible about the
- version of Netscape you are using, and the hardware and version of the OS.
- If possible, include a test case for the problem, including a URL.
-
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- Configuration Notes
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-
- Configuration Files from Version 1.12 or earlier:
-
- If you are migrating from Netscape Navigator Version 1.12 or
- earlier, a new directory is created in which configuration files
- are placed. This directory is called `$HOME/.netscape'. Existing
- 1.12 or earlier configuration information is copied into this
- directory upon first execution of Netscape. A dialog is presented
- asking whether or not you would like to automatically delete your
- 1.12 files.
-
- If you do not choose to delete the old files, then they will
- continue to be used by older versions of Netscape, but versions
- newer than 1.12 will never touch them.
-
- If you have a file or directory in $HOME called .netscape, you
- should rename it prior to running this version. If you don't,
- it will be renamed for you, to `.netscape.BAK'.
-
- Mail:
-
- Please see the Release Notes for important information on
- configuring and using Netscape Mail. Knowing how to configure
- and use Netscape Mail will prevent you from losing mail messages.
-
- Java Applet Support:
-
- Java Applet support is available for all Unix platforms.
-
- To run Java applets with the Java-enabled version, the Navigator
- needs to be able to load Java class files from a file called
- java_30. This file is included in the distribution, but must
- be moved to any of these directories:
-
- The current directory
- /usr/local/netscape/java/classes
- /usr/local/lib/netscape
- $HOME/.netscape
-
- If you were running Java with an earlier version of the Netscape
- Navigator, you need to replace your old moz2_0.car file, or old
- moz*.zip file with the new java_30 file supplied in this
- distribution.
-
- YOU SHOULD NOT UNZIP THE java_30 FILE.
-
- Netscape Plug-in Support:
-
- Netscape Plug-in support is available on SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3,
- Solaris 2.4, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, and Linux.
-
- A default plug-in (libnullplugin.so) is included in the
- distribution (except for Linux due to restrictions about using
- Motif). You should install this plug-in in either:
-
- $HOME/.netscape/plugins
- or
- /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins
-
- More information about Unix plug-ins is available at:
-
- http://cgi.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/extensions/info.cgi
-
- InSoft CoolTalk Helper Application:
-
- CoolTalk is available for Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4, SunOS 4.1,
- HP-UX, OSF/1, and IRIX. To install CoolTalk, extract the contents
- of the CoolTalk tar file and run install.sh from the cooltalk
- directory. For more information, see cooltalk/README. This file
- also contains important troubleshooting information.
-
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- Installation Instructions
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-
- Installation of Netscape is very simple: unpack the tar file, and run the
- resultant executable. But there are, of course, a few exceptions....
-
- AIX:
- Netscape requires AIX 3.2.5 with the X11R5 and Motif 1.2 libraries.
- If you are running an older version of the operating system, you
- will get undefined symbols at run-time; unfortunately, the only
- solution is to upgrade to a more recent version of the OS.
-
- SunOS 4.1:
- The SunOS 4.1 package comes with two executables: netscape and
- netscape_dns. This is because SunOS uses two different,
- incompatible methods of resolving host names (Domain Name Service,
- and Network Information Service, formerly known as Yellow Pages.)
- Only one of these executables needs to be installed on an
- individual site.
-
- It is usually possible to configure your YP/NIS server to consult
- a DNS server for resolution of hosts not in the YP maps. Consult
- your system administrator for details.
-
- If the Navigator is crashing under OpenWindows 3.0, make sure you
- have all of the relevant patches, including patch 100444.
-
- Solaris 2.4:
- The Solaris 2.4 Navigator is dynamically linked with the X and
- Motif libraries. If the Motif dynamic libraries are not properly
- installed, the Navigator will exit with this error:
-
- ld.so.1: netscape: fatal: libXm.so.3: can't open file: errno=2
-
- Installing Motif dynamic libraries will get the navigator working.
- If you cannot install the Motif libraries, you can run the
- Navigator for Solaris 2.3 on your Solaris 2.4 machine.
-
- SunOS 4.1 and BSD/386:
- These distributions also includes a directory called "nls". This
- directory is a standard part of the MIT X11R5 distribution, but
- is not included with X11R4- or X11R6-based systems (such as
- OpenWindows 3.0 or earlier, and XFree86 3.1 or later.)
-
- On these systems, Netscape has been linked against X11R5 (because
- Motif 1.2.4 has some bad bugs in conjunction with X11R6.)
- Unfortunately, X11R5 has one rather serious bug, which is that if
- this "nls" directory does not exist, the program will dump core
- any time you try to copy, or paste to or from a text field!
-
- So, if you don't have the "nls" directory on your system, you will
- need to install it first. Here is where Netscape looks for it
- (these default pathnames are hardcoded into the executable):
-
- SunOS 4.1: /usr/lib/X11/nls/
- BSD/386: /usr/X11/lib/X11/nls/
-
- If you choose not to create the directory there, then you must
- set the XNLSPATH environment variable to the directory where you
- did install it.
-
- NetBSD, FreeBSD:
- We have been told (but have not verified) that the BSD/386 binaries
- will work on x86 systems running NetBSD 1.0 or FreeBSD 2.0 (but
- not FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.)
-
-
- * Included with all distributions is a file called XKeysymDB. Without this
- file, many warnings about "unknown keysyms" will be generated when the
- program starts up, and most keyboard equivalents won't work. This is a
- general problem with running Motif programs on systems not configured for
- Motif, and so will be necessary on most Sun systems.
-
- This file is included with all packages because some systems have an older
- version of this file, so you may still get some warnings. The XKeysymDB
- file normally goes in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or /usr/openwin/lib/XKeysymDB,
- but you can override that with XKEYSYMDB environment variable.
-
- * Also included with all distributions is a file called Netscape.ad, which
- lists the default resources which are built in to the program. It is
- not necessary to install this; it is provided for informational purposes.
- See the comment at the top of Netscape.ad for more information.
-
- * If you get a "Cannot locate host" dialog at startup, this is a sign of
- problems related to name resolution. If you're on a Sun, see the comments
- above about the two executables.
-
- * If you get a "Cannot connect to host" dialog at startup, it could mean that
- you are behind a firewall, and need to tell Netscape about your SOCKS or
- proxy server. See Options Menu -> Network... -> Proxies, or consult your
- system administrator.
-
- * Please read the release notes under "Help -> Release Notes". This
- document is updated as problems are found, so please check it before
- reporting a bug.
-
- * And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
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