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by **Thad Toucht** » Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:00:00

I have a Sparc 2 running Solaris 2.6 and I want to install Netscape. I have
configured the networking portion (default route, DNS, etc.), but I'm having
trouble installing Netscape.

Last night I downloaded Netscape from their ftp site onto a Win98 machine. I
then ftp'd it to the Sparc. I tried to 'gzip' it as the instructions noted, but
apparently, I don't have gzip. So, on the Win98 machine, I unzipped the file
using WinZip, then ftp'd the uncompressed files over.

When I try to run the 'ns-install' program, I'm told it can't be run. Doesn't
appear to be a permission problem......

What is the proper way to install a program, like Netscape, on a machine running
Solaris?

Thanks,
Thad

by **Douglas Gibb** » Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:00:00

You should download it again via Netscapes FTP site and you chould get a
copy of gzip from www.sunfreeware.com.

> I have a Sparc 2 running Solaris 2.6 and I want to install Netscape. I have
> configured the networking portion (default route, DNS, etc.), but I'm having
> trouble installing Netscape.

> Last night I downloaded Netscape from their ftp site onto a Win98 machine. I
> then ftp'd it to the Sparc. I tried to 'gzip' it as the instructions noted, but
> apparently, I don't have gzip. So, on the Win98 machine, I unzipped the file
> using WinZip, then ftp'd the uncompressed files over.

> When I try to run the 'ns-install' program, I'm told it can't be run. Doesn't
> appear to be a permission problem......

> What is the proper way to install a program, like Netscape, on a machine running
> Solaris?

> Thanks,
> Thad

by **Thad Toucht** » Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Thanks. I downloaded gzip and installed it. Now my next hurdle...... The
Netscape documentation says to unzip the file using:

gzip -dc <file_name> | tar -xvf

That's not working for me. It appears the tar command is failing for some
reason. I've tried the command several different ways (-xv, -x, -xf.....)
without success. I looked at the man pages for tar also. If the answer is
there, I didn't see it.....

Any suggestions?

Thad

>You should download it again via Netscapes FTP site and you chould get a
>copy of gzip from www.sunfreeware.com.

>> I have a Sparc 2 running Solaris 2.6 and I want to install Netscape. I have
>> configured the networking portion (default route, DNS, etc.), but I'm having
>> trouble installing Netscape.

>> Last night I downloaded Netscape from their ftp site onto a Win98 machine. I
>> then ftp'd it to the Sparc. I tried to 'gzip' it as the instructions noted, but
>> apparently, I don't have gzip. So, on the Win98 machine, I unzipped the file
>> using WinZip, then ftp'd the uncompressed files over.

>> When I try to run the 'ns-install' program, I'm told it can't be run. Doesn't
>> appear to be a permission problem......

>> What is the proper way to install a program, like Netscape, on a machine running
>> Solaris?

>> Thanks,
>> Thad

by **Ross Obri** » Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:00:00

>Thanks. I downloaded gzip and installed it. Now my next hurdle...... The
>Netscape documentation says to unzip the file using:

>gzip -dc <file_name> | tar -xvf

>That's not working for me. It appears the tar command is failing for some

try "gunzip -dc <file_name> | tar xvf - " always works for me :]

Ross O'Brien
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by **Tim Henstoc** » Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:00:00

>Zip, then ftp'd the uncompressed files over.

> When I try to run the 'ns-install' program, I'm told it can't be run. Doesn't
> appear to be a permission problem......

chmod +x ns-install
or
sh ./ns-install

ftp will generally remove the x part of the permissions.....

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