Netscape 6.22 and Red Hat 7.2

DISCUSSION Mark Johnson 2 participants 2 messages Apr 27, 2002

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Mark Johnson

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2002-04-27 04:03 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello All,

I am having troubles installing Netscape 6.22 on my Red Hat 7.2
system and was wondering if someone could help. I currently use netscape navigator 4.78. When I install the new 6.22 it finds the old version and asks to delete it and respond yes to delete. The program installs fine and comes up and running fine. But, when I exit the program and start it up it doesn't give me a new icon or anyway to start up the new version. When I use the old icon, I get the old netscape. I have tried about 3 times to reinstall it with no luck. although the third time I removed the old navigator icons from the KDE menu and it was replaced with a new icon, but I get the old netscape. Then I tried running Mozilla to get my mail and sure enough I get the new version of netscape, but it has the old version of mozilla in the lower left corner icons. The mozilla program seems to be the newer version that is built in though as I didn't install a new one, just old Icons in the lower left corner. anyway, I did a file search for netscape and couldn't locate anything but the old netscape stuff. I even searched for *6.22* with no results? Is there a way to uninstall the old version? or am I forgetting to do something? any help would be greatly appreciated.

    -=Mark=-

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Pierre Rousselet

2002-04-27 04:24 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 4 lines · Mark Johnson

Hello All,
I am having troubles installing Netscape 6.22 on my Red Hat 7.2
system and was wondering if someone could help. I currently use netscape navigator 4.78. When I install the new 6.22 it finds the old version and asks to delete it and respond yes to delete.

netscape-6 is mozilla. The last release is mozilla-1.0-rc1.

Depending on your display the installation window may be too small for showing where mozilla is installed, you may have to enlarge it first.

By default it installs itself in /usr/local/mozilla if you unpack a mozilla-xxx.tar.gz archive or /usr/local/netscape if you unpack a netscape-6-xxx.tar.gz.

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The program
installs fine and comes up and running fine. But, when I exit the program and start it up it doesn't give me a new icon or anyway to start up the new version. When I use the old icon, I get the old netscape.

I wouldn't expect any automatic link installed. Just use kmenuedit and enter name 'Netscape-6' command line '/usr/local/netscape/netscape' (or /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla).

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I have tried about 3 times to reinstall it with no luck. although the third time I removed the old navigator icons from the KDE menu and it was replaced with a new icon, but I get the old netscape. Then I tried running Mozilla to get my mail and sure enough I get the new version of netscape, but it has the old version of mozilla in the lower left corner icons. The mozilla program seems to be the newer version that is built in though as I didn't install a new one, just old Icons in the lower left corner.

Check the version with the menu Help 'About netscape'

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anyway, I did a file search for netscape and couldn't locate anything but the old netscape stuff. I even searched for *6.22* with no results? Is there a way to uninstall the old version?

You can safely delete any previous diretory /usr/local/netscape. Your mail files are in /home/.netscape

Pierre
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