You guys I hate to ask you this but I am going nuts. I have tried to install the new netscape 7 but I cant. I download it to my desktop and than extract the files. Please can someone give me a step by step on how to get this to work. I feel so stupid I cant even get a download to work. Maybe I am just not cut out for Linux.
Please help .
Thanks andy

Ps step by step for dummies, I am no dumb person but mandrake is starting to make me fee like it.

Thanks again

Hi

You must be logged in as root in order to have a global installation of netscape, if not you can install it where you have write permissions. I didn't understand if you have it already extracted or not so here it goes:

1. Open a console(the thing that seems similar to a dos console) and extract the archive by typing:

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


2. Now change to the directory extracted by typing:

cd netscape-installer


3. Run the instalation script by typing:

./netscape-installer

4. Follow instructions that appear on new window created and thats it, like your installation directory, and type of installation.

Azael

Azael I just want to thank you for getting back to me. Can I just click on the shell terminal and type everything you told me. I really hope this works .
Thanks Again, and I will let you know if I had luck tomorrow thanks.
Andy

Hi again

Yeah it should work, and hope you dont get any troubles.

Azael

Everytime I do what was mentioned to unpack the file I get the error message saying that the directory does not exist , and somthing about a child file . I am saving this download to my desktop , when I open up a shell How do I get it to my desktop directory, what am I doing wrong? Please help me

Hi

When you open the shell you start at your home directory like /home/fulanito, to change to your desktop just open shell and type:

cd Desktop

then follow instructions i gave you.

Azael

I just wanted to say thank you for all of your help it worked great.
Thanks again
Andy