instal netscape suse 8.0
 

Gdday !
Just installed Suse 8.0 and wish to use netscape 7.0 .have doenloaded installer but still cant install because i dont know which file and app to use .what is the linux equivilient of .exe and which app do i use to instal netscape ?
In KDE 3.0 how do i restore the default settings as i have accidently lost all the toolbars ? Right licking the window title bar and selecting configer has no restore defaults button in it !

Any advice most welcome please ..
Also what does pap stand for ,i gues the last letter is protocol ,maybe middle letter is application ?

thanks ...

I haven't done Netscape, but I'll give you a hand. You'll need to answere a couple questions for me, though...

What file did you download? .rpm or .tar.gz?

If it was some form of zipped file, did you get it unzipped?

Is there a netscape-installer or some-such directory now?

Is there a README in the new directory? If there is, it should tell you in there what you need to do.

I use Mozilla, and highly recommend it. Netscape released their source code a few years ago, and the Mozilla project was created. Mozilla coders then surpassed Netscape coders, and now Netscape is built from Mozilla code. Since they are still a commercial outfit, Netscape changed some options in the code to make it more profitable to them. I hear there is a bit less control for blocking pop-ups and whatnot, though I don't know first-hand.

Anyway, installing Netscape should be pretty similar to installing Mozilla. It downloads as a mozilla-blah-blah-blah.tar.gz . In my downloads directory, I run...

tar xzf mozilla-blah-blah-blah.tar.gz

...which unzips the .tar.gz file and creates a new directory called mozilla-installer . I cd into the new directory, and check the README. In the Linux Installation Instructions section, it says to run the mozilla-installer command. So, I run...

./mozilla-installer

...and follow the directions. After that, Mozilla is installed.

Hello ranger nemo

I downloaded a file called netscape-686.pc-linux-gnu installer.tar.gz

Also arrived netscape-installer


What is the app to use to unzip the files ? is there a winzip in linux ?

There is no readme to view but it could be in zip file.

thanx for your help ......

From a command-line...

tar xzf netscape*.tar.gz

...will unzip it nicely.

hi,
i have used the command above as advised by ranger-nemo.

read the readme .and this says cd to
netcape installer and to run installer
with run script ./netscape-installer this also fails to install netscape .

can anyone help on this ?

I think Netscape7 is on one of the SuSE 8.0 cds, which is odd cause 8.1 just has Netscape4x on one of the cds.

netscape
 

Yes netscape6 IS on cd .thanks it is now installed ok