Netscape on Xfree86

[xchanyazy]

Has anyone been able to get netscape running through xdarwin? I've got Xfree86 4.1.0 installed, running gnome on my g4/500 AGP. I tried ./netscape-install, but I just got pages upon pages of garbage. Any one have any luck?

[Benad]

Have you tried the mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/) package with Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)?

Mozilla is usually more up-to-date than Netscape 6 anyways...

- Benad

[xchanyazy]

Hmm.. how would one do that? I've used fink for a few things (GIMP, etc.), but they were all on the list from sudo fink list. I don't know how to install a package that isn't on that list.

Thanks.

EDIT: I don't know how to install a package that isn't on that list hrough fink, that is.

[Benad]

If you read here (http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php), it says what to do to be able to install "unstable" fink packages (the "Read this:" paragraph). The best part is that once you've done that, you'll have access to tons of other packages that you normally wouldn't see with "sudo dselect" or "sudo fink list".

It's not very user friendly, but it works. Good luck!

- Benad

[xchanyazy]

Hmmm..
I tried that, and, since it was taking a while, I went to a movie (Black Hawk Down, pretty good). When I came back, I noticed that it had exited with an error of no more space left on the device. Somehow, the 11 meg or so file I downloaded expanded into 450 some odd MB of stuff. Did you have to do anything other than sudo fink install mozilla?

Thanks

[Craig R. Arko]

If the install went OK, you should be able to type 'mozilla &' in an xterm and it should go.

Did you add 'source /sw/bin/init.csh' to your .cshrc file?

[sao]

More information, please...

What version of Fink do you have ?:
type in terminal : /sw/bin/fink --version

Which MAC OS version you are running ?

After you configured fink to use "unstable"

did you make a "fink selfupdate" and "fink update-all" ?

I'm running Mozilla 0.9.7 and it works very well.

(Fink Package manager version: 0.9.6a
Distribution version: 0.3.1)
XDarwin 1.05
XFree86

MAC OS 10.1.2

Cheers...

[xchanyazy]

source /sw/bin/init.csh is in my .cshrc file. I typed rehash, and then mozilla &, and it said [12:29][brandg /Users/brandg] %mozilla &
mozilla: Command not found.
[1] 18311
[1] Exit 1 mozilla

Fink 0.9.7 (from a self-update)
Dist. 0.3.2a.cvs
OS 10.1.2
XDarwin 1.6
Xfree86 4.1.0

EDIT: When I try to do a fink update-all, one of the packages won't download, and it just exits without doing anything.

[sao]

When you type in terminal:

which mozilla

What's the answer?

If installed correctly should be /sw/bin/mozilla

Please check...

For the missing file when you do a "fink update-all" :

Do a search with Google and try to download the same missing file from another server to your Desktop.

Then cp or mv the file to /sw/src

Fink will recognize it when you do again fink update-all

Cheers...

[xchanyazy]

When I type which mozilla, I get mozilla: command not found. I tried to install by hand, but the .tar file was 230.6 MB, and I didn't have enough space to finish untarring it. Anyone know why the .tar file is that large?

On a good note, the google search worked perfectly, thanks. I had no idea one could do that.

[sao]

Do a sudo fink list...

Is mozilla listed as already installed ?

( i mozilla 0.9.7-1 Web browser and mail reader )

If appears on the list, as not installed :

( mozilla 0.9.7-1 Web browser and mail reader )

do then, a "fink install mozilla"


Cheers...

[xchanyazy]

Ok, I got all of my OS X files from a 5 GB partition to my former OS 9 partition (10 GB). Then, I used fink to redownload the package and install it... After 3 hours (and 500 MB of space taken up), I went to sleep. Sometime while I was sleeping, it finished (best estimate, about 6 hours) and removed most of the files, meaning my drive only went down 20 or 30 MB in. I still don't understand why it needed so much space to install, or why it took so long (G4 500 AGP, 896 MB RAM), but I now have a fully functional Xwindows Mozilla install, and am damned happy with it, in fact I am using it as we speak.

Thanks for all the hints, everyone.

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by sao
Do a sudo fink list...

Is mozilla listed as already installed ?

( i mozilla 0.9.7-1 Web browser and mail reader )

If appears on the list, as not installed :

( mozilla 0.9.7-1 Web browser and mail reader )

do then, a "fink install mozilla"
I was with you right up to here ... but after fink retrieved the package, it thrashed, grepped, sedded, built, linked and made for several hours and ended up with a simple "can't install mozilla -0.9.7-1" message.

I did a "fink selfupdate" (was current) and a "fink update-all" (updated pine, which is irrelevant here), then tried again:

-----
[localhost:~] egon% fink install mozilla
sudo /sw/bin/fink install mozilla
Reading package info...
Information about 680 packages read in 11 seconds.
pkg mozilla version ###
pkg mozilla version 0.9.7-1
The following package will be installed or updated:
mozilla
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/mozilla_0.9.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package mozilla.
(Reading database ... 26797 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mozilla (from .../mozilla_0.9.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up mozilla (0.9.7-1) ...
dpkg: error processing mozilla (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 138
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla
### dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package mozilla-0.9.7-1
-----

Any ideas about where to start fixing things would be appreciated.

[mervTormel]

i suspect insufficient disk space, or whacky user name :D

let us know

[uhhh...Clem]

22.7Gb free. Username: egon.

The system is an almost-brand-new G4 Powerbook with OS X 10.1.2.

I did no work on the Unix fs from a shell until I discovered Xfree86, which I installed manually from Xfree86.org. Then I discovered fink and have used them ever since, starting with their system-libgl and system-xfree placeholders.

I have never touched a line of source code from either Xfree86 or Fink, and every package I've retrieved has installed and performed flawlessly until now.

Update: The Debian dselect package handling frontend identified mozilla as a "Broken Unclassified package without a section", so I accepted its recommendation to purge it, which it did.

[mervTormel]

can you grep thru that post-installation scriptage and look for that exit 138 error?

perhaps that will lead to what it gakked on.

[sao]

Please check in sw/src :

Do you have "mozilla-source-0.9.7.tar.bz2" ?

Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

Here's what I have left after the failed install:

[localhost:~] egon% ls -al /sw/src | grep mozil
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 27159136 Jan 25 23:51 mozilla-source-0.9.7.tar.bz2

As for grepping through the post-installation script ... where would that script be, to grep through? The output from the linking, building etc. ran on for hours, and when I checked in on it occasionally I did see the kinds of compiler messages ("variable X set but not used", "setting Y undefined assuming Z" etc.) that I have with other builds. I've assumed that they were nonfatal errors (since pine, lynx, pan etc. all run fine after exhibiting them) and that fink would terminate on a fatal error in there. It's the fact that it ran through all that, seemed to think the build went O.K. and then crapped out during the install that's puzzling.

[sao]

Please try:

"Fink rebuild mozilla"

If this doesn't make it, then please check:

"which make"

It should say: "/usr/bin/make"

and "make --version" It should start with: "GNU Make version 3.79"

Try and let me know.

Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by sao
Please try:

"Fink rebuild mozilla"Did that. It ran all night and seemed to finish without errors:

[...]
install -c -m 644 build/package/rpm/SOURCES/mozilla-compose-icon.gif /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/share/pixmaps/mozilla-mail-composer.gif
install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/share/doc/mozilla
install -c -p -m 644 LEGAL LICENSE /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/share/doc/mozilla/
rm -f /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/info/dir /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/info/dir.old /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/share/info/dir /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1/sw/share/info/dir.old
rm -rf mozilla-0.9.7-1
Writing control file...
Writing package script postinst...
Writing package script postrm...
dpkg-deb -b root-mozilla-0.9.7-1 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web
dpkg-deb: building package `mozilla' in `/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/mozilla_0.9.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
ln -sf /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/mozilla_0.9.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/debs/
rm -rf /sw/src/root-mozilla-0.9.7-1
[localhost:~] egon%

I now have these unstaable main web .debs:

[localhost:~] egon% ls -al /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/
total 33000
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 264 Jan 26 03:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root admin 330 Jan 24 17:29 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 420744 Jan 24 16:08 dillo_0.6.3-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 16144564 Jan 28 07:59 mozilla_0.9.7-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 326884 Jan 24 17:29 wget_1.8.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb

Two of these have previously installed O.K.:

[localhost:~] egon% which dillo
/sw/bin/dillo
[localhost:~] egon% which wget
/sw/bin/wget

... but not mozilla:

[localhost:~] egon% which mozilla
mozilla: Command not found. If this doesn't make it, then please check:

"which make"

It should say: "/usr/bin/make"

and "make --version" It should start with: "GNU Make version 3.79"Correct in both cases. So should I try "sudo fink install mozilla" again?

[sao]

Ok then, try once more "fink install mozilla"


Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by sao
Ok then, try once more "fink install mozilla"Nope ... got the same error:

dpkg: error processing mozilla (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 138
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla
### dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package mozilla-0.9.7-1

I did some digging in the dpkg man pages and came up with:

dpkg -C|--audit check for broken package(s)

... which I did, and got:

[localhost:~] egon% dpkg -C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
mozilla Web browser and mail reader

... so I did:

[localhost:~] egon% sudo dpkg --configure mozilla
Password:
Setting up mozilla (0.9.7-1) ...
dpkg: error processing mozilla (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 138
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla

I feel like I'm getting closer, anyway ... it's a "configuration" (post-installation) problem. But since I haven't made any changes to the code, I'm thinking that must mean a pre-existing "problem" in my local environment.

And that, in turn, could be either permissions, or some file sitting somewhere that dpkg can't or won't clobber. Any ideas on where I can start checking these?

[sao]

Please can you tell me your system configuration.

But I suspect it has to do with what you wrote before :

<<Update: The Debian dselect package handling frontend identified mozilla as a "Broken Unclassified package without a section", so I accepted its recommendation to purge it, which it did.>>

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by sao
Please can you tell me your system configuration.What in particular? I can tell you that except for my dabbling with Xfree86 and fink, I haven't put my hands on any of the system-configuration files I'm familiar with (never modified inetd.conf, haven't set up a crontab, haven't "patched the kernel", haven't created or modified a startup script etc.)

There's this, if it will help:

[localhost:~] egon% uname -a
Darwin localhost 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

[localhost:~] egon% df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s5 29299544 6572080 22727464 22% /
devfs 29 29 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
automount -fstab [247] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers
automount -static [247] 0 0 0 100% /automount
idisk.mac.com/gtt5 20480 10477 10002 51% /Volumes/gtt5

Even with my Xfree86/fink work, I've tried to keep this as "clean" as I could -- I've never touched a line of source code from either of them and let the scripts do all the work instead.But I suspect it has to do with what you wrote before :

<<Update: The Debian dselect package handling frontend identified mozilla as a "Broken Unclassified package without a section", so I accepted its recommendation to purge it, which it did.>> But that was after the first time I did "sudo fink install mozilla", when it spent all night building and making and then failed with that postprocessing-script error; it's failed in exactly the same way each time thereafter.

[xchanyazy]

I should have mentioned.. after using fink to download the package, I installed it by hand. That may or may not have been the cause of it working (I suspect it was actually having enough free space on the drive), but you may want to try it out. I believe you just use ./configure, then make and make install, though you should check the README or INSTALLATION before you try that. Hope you get it working.

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by xchanyazy
I should have mentioned.. after using fink to download the package, I installed it by hand. That may or may not have been the cause of it working (I suspect it was actually having enough free space on the drive), but you may want to try it out. I believe you just use ./configure, then make and make install, though you should check the README or INSTALLATION before you try that. Hope you get it working. That makes sense, and I'm certainly willing to try it if I can install it into the /sw tree in such a way that fink will see it and, with any luck, "think" that it installed it there itself and keep mozilla under its overall control for maintenance.

In your hand-installation, can you see where the mozilla components wound up? Are they roughly where fink would put them if it could just get through its own postprocessing script (as far as you can tell, anyway -- maybe sao could help us determine that if we can't)?

[sao]

I posted your problem to the fink-beginners mailing list, so far no answer.

Maybe you post it there again.

Sorry that I cannot be of more help to you.

My knowledge of fink is quite small.

Cheers...

[xchanyazy]

As far as I can tell, hand installing put everything into the same place fink does. It used the /sw/bin, /sw/etc, etcetera for install places, and a simple rehash command made xwindows recognize it (which mozilla = /sw/bin/mozilla).

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by xchanyazy
As far as I can tell, hand installing put everything into the same place fink does. It used the /sw/bin, /sw/etc, etcetera for install places, and a simple rehash command made xwindows recognize it (which mozilla = /sw/bin/mozilla). That's just bizarre -- (how do /usr/bin/make and the mozilla tarfile "know" that fink is present, let alone that that's where I prefer things to get made?) -- but it's also true. I retrieved the source from mozilla.org, did "configure", then "make", then "install". The last command reported "nothing to install", and in fact I now had these new files among probably countless others:

[localhost:~] egon% ls -al /sw/bin/mozilla
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 2451 Jan 28 07:52 /sw/bin/mozilla
[localhost:~] egon% ls -al /sw/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 88592 Jan 28 07:53 /sw/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin

So I fired up X, opened an xterm window ... and came up empty again:

[localhost:~] egon% mozilla
[localhost:~] egon%

(no Window Manager window opened, nothing further in the xterm window)

[localhost:~] egon% mozilla &
[localhost:~] egon%

(ditto)

[localhost:~] egon% jobs
[1] Exit 138 mozilla

(whatever exitcode 138 is supposed to be)

[localhost:~] egon% mozilla --help
Usage: /sw/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin [ options ... ] [URL]

(rest of help output snipped)

[localhost:~] egon% /sw/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin
Bus error
[localhost:~] egon%

As much as I can make of all this, the problem isn't fink, or my X installation (originally from Xfree86.org, with the fink "placeholders" acknowledging it). It's simply that the Mozilla X client won't build from source on my G4 Powerbook.

Thanks to everyone who helped in this wasted effort. My last question on the subject is whether a precompiled binary may be available somewhere ... the only one I could find at Mozilla.org was the OS X quartz client.

[sao]

Please don't give up yet, sometimes it takes several days to figure out what the problem is.

Cheers...

[xchanyazy]

What does it say when you type which mozilla in the terminal?

Also, isn't it make install as the last command?

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by xchanyazy
What does it say when you type which mozilla in the terminal?[localhost:~] egon% which mozilla
/sw/bin/mozilla
[localhost:~] egon%
Also, isn't it make install as the last command? Correct -- I misquoted myself. I did this (it's still in the term window buffer):

[localhost:~/dev/mozilla] egon% make install
make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
[localhost:~] egon%

[sao]

Let's start again. Please tell me:

Fink version (fink --version)
XFree86 version (I know you installed from source)
XDarwin version
Which Developer Tools installed?

(Also, I suppose you did configure Fink to use unstable)


Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

Originally posted by sao
Let's start again. Please tell me:
Fink version (fink --version)[localhost:~] egon% fink --version
Package manager version: 0.9.7
Distribution version: 0.3.2a.cvs
XFree86 version (I know you installed from source)[localhost:~] egon% X -version
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
XDarwin versionSeems to be the same thing:

[localhost:~] egon% XDarwin -version
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002

There's also this, if it helps:

[localhost:~] egon% uname -a
Darwin localhost 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

And back in quartz, "About This Mac" confirms OS X version 10.1.2Which Developer Tools installed?The "December 2001 Developer Tools" (Project Builder 1.1.1 and tons of other "development/performance/UI tools". It was on a CD in the OS X 10.1 box, installed as per instructions thereon and never touched directly thereafter.(Also, I suppose you did configure Fink to use unstable)Yes. That's how I first got Mozilla, which failed fink's efforts to install (see my first post in this thread).

[sao]

I am running almost in the same configuration as you, the only difference is that I didn't update yet my XFree86 installation.

I still have:

XFree86 Version 4.1.99.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
Release Date: xx November 2001

Which makes me suspect that your problem has a lot to do with your upgrade to XFree86 4.2 from the Xonx project.

I keep checking for a solution.

Cheers...

[sao]

Some information I found from people with the same problem in the fink archives:

---------
<<It looks like you already have a .deb built, but it's not working right.
Try doing 'fink rebuild mozilla' instead.>>

(Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA 02139-4213)
--------
--------
<<I wanted to add myself to the list of people who have trouble installing mozilla. Not with building, that works fine and creates the .deb in the right place. But then

Setting up mozilla (0.9.7-1) ...
dpkg: error processing mozilla (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 138

Rebuilding does not help. Also, this does not occur on all my computers. It does not matter if one uses /sw/bin/install or /usr/bin/install.>>

(Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554)
--------

You might be right, probably mozilla X client does not install on the G4 PowerBook (I don't understand)

Will keep checking to confirm this.

Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

I really do appreciate your efforts here ... I'm going to try again to find my own way in the fink forums, which were pretty overwhelming when I first checked them out. That was before I first encountered the problem with mozilla, so I'm a bit more motivated now [:-].

Do you know if the structure of the ".deb" file is documented anywhere? I'm thinking that if mozilla is actually compiling and making O.K. and just won't "install", maybe I could just manually extract the relevant components and distribute them to the right places ...

[sao]

Wait a little longer.

I think the solution to our problem will be coming soon, just read in the fink list:

---------------------
<<This look as if the postinst script of mozilla is broken. There have been many people with this problem now, and I strongly doubt this is just by chance.

Masanori, can you please look into this?>>

Max
--
-----------------------------------------------
Max Horn
Software Developer
--------------------

(Masanori Sekino is the package maintener)

Hopefully it will be soon.

(It's a good idea to dig into the archives, a lot to learn there...!)

Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

I tried rebuilding and reinstalling it yet again, with a view to capturing the full output so I could look for errors.

Again, the "errors" from build still appear to be the "soft" kind ("warning: ANSI C does not allow macro with variable arguments" etc.) that I've seen when fink has installed programs that in fact work flawlessly.

But this time, when running "sudo fink install mozilla" (the stage where it always fails fatally), I noticed this in the console:

Jan 31 17:32:22 localhost /usr/libexec/CrashReporter: Succeeded writing crash report: /Users/egon/Library/Logs/regxpcom.crash.log

That log file shows lots of virtually identical reports, all time-stamped to coincide roughly with each of my previous failures:

[localhost:~] egon% less /Users/egon/Library/Logs/regxpcom.crash.log
Date/Time: 2002-01-31 17:32:22 -0500
OS Version: 10.1.2 (Build 5P48)

Command: regxpcom
PID: 4531

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000001c

... etc. I can't find anything out about "regxpcom", but the name sounds like it's some "regular-expression parser" that install calls when reading the .deb package to figure out where to put stuff. So there's probably a syntax error in the .deb file's script that causes regxpcom to divide by zero or otherwise crap out, which in turn aborts the whole installation.

Of course, all that guesswork still needs 50 cents just to buy me a cup of coffee. I'm going to leave it to the greater minds at mozilla.org to fix their own mistake.

Thanks again for all your help on this.

[mervTormel]

uhh...clem,

if your interested...

google: [ regxpcom ] finds about 1,720 references to this, and a lot of the top ones look like problems.

-mt, flogging a dead horse.

[sao]

I read today from another post in the fink lists :


<<The problem in the postinstall script is a program called regxpcom, which
was built during the mozilla install but crashes when you try to run it.
Masanori has been aware of this problem for some time. As reported today,
it only seems to be a problem on certain machines. (Mine is one of them.)>>


Cheers...

[sao]

The last post about the subject in the fink-users list:

-------------------
At 09:27:33 Uhr -02/01/2002, Masanori Sekino wrote:
<<I'm trying to fix this for a long time, but I have never succeeded to
generate this error on my system. If it could happen on my machine and
could trace with debugger, it's easy to fix, I think.

Is there anyone who can put broken mozilla package (.deb file) on a web
page for me?>>
-------------------


uhhh...Clem can you help Masanori with this ?

Cheers...

[sao]

Update:

We are working with uhhh...Clem to pass to Masanori Sekino (package maintainer) his Mozilla.deb file.

Hopefully, Masanori Sekino will fix the package soon.

Cheers...

[sao]

There is a new Mozilla version in CVS :

mozilla 0.9.8-1 Web browser and mail reader


It worked for some people, for others it built well but the install failed.

Try your luck.

Cheers...

[uhhh...Clem]

Thanks for the tip. I was going to watch a movie tonight anyway, so I let my PowerBook grind away through the new version of mozilla. At the end of the day, unfortunately, after all the making and compiling and mv'ing and rm'ing and whatnot ...

dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/mozilla_0.9.8-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package mozilla.
(Reading database ... 24922 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mozilla (from .../mozilla_0.9.8-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up mozilla (0.9.8-1) ...
dpkg: error processing mozilla (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 138
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla
### dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package mozilla-0.9.8-1
[localhost:~] egon%

... and another addendum to ~/Library/Logs/regexpcom.crash.log that -- except for the dates and times -- is pretty much identical to the several already in there from the 0.9.7-1 failures.

Oh well ...

[pmcd]

Hmm...I installed Mozilla 9.8-1 over 9.7 just fine on one Cube and on the other ran into the same installation problem (that is the deb was created but the install failed). I quit X Windows and then installed it using sudo dpkg -i <package> from Terminal and it installed just fine. Odd.

I am running gnome 1.4 if that matters.

philip

[sao]

Hi pmcd,

Yes, I also have installed it successfully on a desktop G4.

The problem here is that Mozilla X client won't build from source on the G4 Powerbook.

Cheers...

[kerim]

Thanks everyone for the tips on how to install Mozilla. I did it and it was fairly easy to do so (I'm using it now) - but a warning for anyone who plans to do this: it takes about 4 hours to install!!! I can't believe how long it took. BTW: what would happen if I had put my iBook to sleep while it was running the install? Would it have killed it, or would it have simply continued after waking up? I opted to let it run, but I'm curious for future reference.

kerim

[cybergoober]

B-to-the-izump!

I've tried to install Mozilla for X-Win several times. It appears to be hanging while displaying
patching file configure

While it is doing this my machine (G4 DP 800) is rendered absolutely useless. If I try to click on something else I get the spinning disk cursor. I can't even force-quit. Is this normal? C'mon I got two friggin' processors!! I remember GNOME took a really long time to finish, but I could at least do other stuff on my system while it was running. Any clues? I'm typing this on my POS XP PeeCee here at work so I can let my OS X box (hopefully) get through the thing.

TIA

[sao]

Please, which version of Mozilla are you trying to install ?

Also, which fink version, XFree86 version, are you running ?

Cheers...

[sao]

cybergoober,

There are several problems reported affecting the installation of mozilla in DP machines. That's why I wanted to know which version are you trying to install.

I recommend you install the latest:

Mozilla 0.9.9-3


Cheers...


(On another subject: I read about several people who installed without problems 'mozilla_0.9.8-1' in the Titanium G4 laptop.)