Very Computer

I'm currently installing netscape communicator 4.5 on a slackware 2.0
(pentium) machine.

After downloading the communicator file from win NT, I reboot into linux
and ran this command:

gzip -dc commun~1 | tar -xvf-  to unpack the file.

During the unpacking, I received various error messages i.e.

./communicator-v45.x86-unknown-linux2.0/jio40.jar
tar: ./communicator-v45.x86-unknown_linux2.0/jio40.jar: cannot chown to
uid 7824 gid20: operation not permitted.

this type of message came on for all files that the unpacking
attempted.  After the system gave me a prompt, I found a communicator
directory was neatly created.

This time, I entered the directory and decided to run ns-install  (to
install netscape).
The installation appears to copy all files into the /usr/local/netscape
directory, and completed w/o any errors.

After installation, I tried to start netscape from within
/usr/local/netscape and received this message

bash: ./netscape: no such file or directory.

I went back and checked the directory;  There is a netscape file w/ size
12127868
and the attrib is -r-xr-xr-x

I've tried to redownload and installed netscape several times.  Each
time, I have the same problem.

Any help is appreciated.
thanks,

FWIW, I did my RedHat 5.2 installation like this, and it worked
for me. I used NT4 for the download.

1. Follow README.install that's with the Netscape 4.5 download.
2. Ref to "Running Linux" O'Reilly book p.176, extract with
'tar xzvf com*.tar.gz' as root.
3. As root, changed /etc/profile to add couple lines:
MOZILLA_HOME="/usr/local/netscape"
export MOZILLA_HOME
4. Invoked ns-install from /root/download/netscape.45 (where I put it)
./ns-install -o -v

Hope this helps.
Alan