Author: Aaron Turner
Email: aturner@pobox.com
Web Page: http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/
Date Submitted: Wed, Jan 21, 1998
Status: New Entry

Releases: 5.0, 4.2
Platform: intel
Category:  Application Notes
Category Listing:  How do I properly install Communicator 4.04?

Issue

Historically there has been a lot of problems with Netscape/ 
Communicator on Linux. How do I get it (and Java) to work? 

Response

Getting the latest version of Communicator to work under RedHat is quite easy as long as you know two things:

  1. You use the ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/mirrors/redhat-contrib/i386/netscape-wrapper-bnl-4.04-3.i386.rpm
    Netscape Wrapper RPM to install Communicator 4.04 which is
    currently the most stable version.
  2. You set the MOZILLA_HOME enviroment variable as discussed in this other FAQ available on the RHLUFAQ.

To use the wrapper RPM, place your communicator tarball (available on Netscape's ftp site) in your /tmp directory and install the RPM as you normally would (rpm -ivh ).

References

Java & Communicator 4.04 FAQ

Communicator 4.04 Tarball