Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Netscape Problems.
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dedwards@technologist.com wrote:
zentara wrote:
<SNIP> Did you set the MOZILLA_HOME=/opt/netscape environment variable?
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Uh, I've got a question here - what is the env. variable MOZILLA_HOME for?? I downloaded Netscape Gold vs 3.04-1 from the Netscape site when it first went free. unbundled the tarball into /usr/local/lib/netscape, moved the binary to /usr/bin, set a symlink from /usr/local/netscape to /usr/local/lib/netscape - and everything has worked fine since. --
Hi, Yeah, I have installed it without setting the variable, and it's worked; until I started playing with RealAudio and other helper apps. It's to tell other programs and netscape itself, where to look for the libraries it needs to run. The reason it runs OK for you, is that in the absence of the MOZILLA_HOME variable, /opt/netscape is used as default. Then it looks at a few other locations, probably /usr/local/lib/netscape. Also since you put netscape.exe in /usr/bin, it is in your path and can be found. You might have trouble launching "helper applications" such as the RealAudio player and Shockwave stuff if you don't have the MOZILLA_HOME environment variable set. zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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