Hi all

I have a new install of Solaris 8. I have installed Netscape 7,
however, I can only run this program the /Netscape directory - I am
unable to run Netscape using the Globe icon (Error message: Web
browser unavailable)

I have done a little digging around on the net to see if I can work
out how to set this up, but i've not yet found an explanation of what
to do (at least not one which I understand !)

I have seen references to setting up the .profile and setting
environment variables etc, but didn't really understand exactly how to
do this

I am fairly new to Solaris so would really appreciate some
"idiot-proof" instructions on how to do this (including full paths
etc) ...

Many thanks in advance for any help

Marcus

marcus_newbie <marcus.jones@entiretyservices.com> wrote:
> I have a new install of Solaris 8. I have installed Netscape 7,
> however, I can only run this program the /Netscape directory - I am
> unable to run Netscape using the Globe icon (Error message: Web
> browser unavailable)
> 
> I have done a little digging around on the net to see if I can work
> out how to set this up, but i've not yet found an explanation of what
> to do (at least not one which I understand !)

Take a look at:

  http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~martin/cde-www/

It provides an overview on how CDE selects the browser to run, and
a replacement for Sun's sdtwebclient script which supports most
common browsers.

hth, mp.
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