Hi All & Derek, who wrote: <snip>

I see Netscape 6 preview 2 is out and they've adopted one of these stupid "install from the web" things. It's a total pain. I want to download the files onto my laptop or LS120 drive at work, take them home and install them on my box there. Without a straightforward tarball or RPM I can't do it. The Helix GNOME installer is another case in point, but at least they make RPMs available.

On a more SuSE related note, I see the NS6PR2 installer doesn't work on SuSE. My 6.2 box SEGVd when I ran it, while my 6.4 box spat out a load of "Bad file descriptor" errors. Could be my firewall, or one of a host of different things. I've written a note to Netscape asking for a standard tarball. I would encourage anyone else who gets bitten by this (on Netscape or GNOME or anything else) to write to the software producer and ask for a less fancy and more reliable download and install mechanism.

(Thwarted by Netscape, I got the Mozilla build instead. That failed to get out past our firewall. Odd because I've never had a problem with the previous builds. Ah well...)

<snip> Yup me too. Try this however.... ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR2/unix/linux22/sea/ netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz Now just do the usual download/untaring thingy & you will be up & surfing, before you can say "Borg!" More features, but still beta.... *BFN* Greek Geek. Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion. Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), U.S. linguist, political analyst. "For Reasons of State," Psychology and Ideology (1973; first published 1971 as a review of B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq