[techtalk] upgrading to Netscape 4.7

[Amanda Owens]

Actually, if I remember correctly (and I recently installed NS 4.7 via 
this method, and always upgrade NS from Netscape), all that should remain 
is your downloaded tar file, and in a directory under the directory that 
is in with a similar name, a ns-log file and something else, neither of 
which takes up much space. There's no real reason to delete these - the 
log file is a log of the install, and the other (looking at it now) is 
the README.install file. These can be useful later. The rest of the 
files that come out of the tarfile end up being moved to your 
installation of Netscape. And, as is stated below, I usually keep the 
downloaded file because it's such a pain to get it again.

Amanda Owens
Duke University Medical Center
Department of Radiation Oncology

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Just This Girl wrote:

> Sure, if you want.
> 
> I used to keep them becuase they take so long to download, but its not
> necessary.
> 
> JoAnn Elliott wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the tips. I successfully uninstalled the netscape 4.6 rpm with
> > kpackage. I could not locate any rpms for 4.7 so at the command prompt and
> > out of x I used the tar command on the .tar.gz file, then installed
> > according to the install instructions that were in there. well, acutally
> > used the ./ns-install as the instructions did not tell me to do a ./ before
> > it, but "just this girl" said to use that and it worked. All I had to do was
> > redirect the icon to the new location of the netscape executable. I feel
> > like a million bucks after this!
> > 
> > now, can I remove the install folder/files safely?
> > 
> > Thanks for the tips!
> > 
> > JoAnn
> > 

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