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by **Stephen M. Pereir** » Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:00:00

Hello all,

I have recently loaded RHL 5.1 successfully on my Sparc Classic at
home. I also have successfully gotten PPP set up and working. Then I
went looking for Netscape, and when I had trouble finding it, I posted
to Usenet, but no response. I later saw a posting and I was able to
download the Netscape tar file from the unix/unsupported area.

Now for my problem. I ungzipped the file and then untarred the contents
into my /usr/local area fine. Then I invoked ns-install and it seemed
to go OK as well. Of course, when I invoke netscape, my disk chugs a
bit and then I get the message that netscape aborted and dumped core.

I read the README file and it says I should download a new glibc RPM
package. Sigh, OK, I thought, and I tried to invoke glint to check out
how the package manager works, only to find that it also bombs out with
two or three error messages about python!

Has anyone been able to get netscape navigator working? Can you tell me
how many packages I must download to get RHL 5.1 fixed up?

I am posting this to Usenet, but I do not expect a great response, as I
have never received one yet when I've posted a question about Sparc
Linux.

Please help if you can,
smp

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Stephen M. Pereira

by **Dave Addiso** » Mon, 16 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>Hello all,

>I have recently loaded RHL 5.1 successfully on my Sparc Classic at
>home. I also have successfully gotten PPP set up and working. Then I
>went looking for Netscape, and when I had trouble finding it, I posted
>to Usenet, but no response. I later saw a posting and I was able to
>download the Netscape tar file from the unix/unsupported area.

>Now for my problem. I ungzipped the file and then untarred the contents
>into my /usr/local area fine. Then I invoked ns-install and it seemed
>to go OK as well. Of course, when I invoke netscape, my disk chugs a
>bit and then I get the message that netscape aborted and dumped core.

>I read the README file and it says I should download a new glibc RPM
>package. Sigh, OK, I thought, and I tried to invoke glint to check out
>how the package manager works, only to find that it also bombs out with
>two or three error messages about python!

>Has anyone been able to get netscape navigator working? Can you tell me
>how many packages I must download to get RHL 5.1 fixed up?

>I am posting this to Usenet, but I do not expect a great response, as I
>have never received one yet when I've posted a question about Sparc
>Linux.

>Please help if you can,
>smp

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>Stephen M. Pereira

I don't think there are many people running Linux of any description on
SPARC. I've currently got RedHat 4.2 and I'm hoping to install 5.1 this
year.
Have you checked the errata list on the RedHat website. This should list
any known bugs in the SPARC distribution? You could also try running the
SunOS binary. The IBCS module is supposed to allow binaries compiled for
other OS to run under Linux? Am I stating the obvious? :)
Dave Addison
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Does anyone know what's going on?

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RHL 5.1 on Sparc and Netscape

RHL 5.1 on Sparc and Netscape

RHL 5.1 on Sparc and Netscape