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- Netscape 6 Read Me
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- Netscape 6 is subject to the terms detailed in the license
- agreement accompanying it.
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- This read-me file contains information about system requirements
- and installation instructions.
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- Before you install Netscape 6, be sure to read the Release Notes,
- which describe known problems and installation issues:
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- http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns6/relnotes/6.0.html
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- To submit bugs or other feedback, from the Help menu choose
- Feedback Center.
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- System Requirements
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- *All Platforms
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- To view and use the new streamlined "Modern" theme, your
- display monitor should be set to display thousands of
- colors. For users who cannot set their displays to use more
- than 256 colors, Netscape recommends using the "Classic"
- theme for Netscape 6.
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- To select the Classic theme after you have installed
- Netscape 6:
- 1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
- 2. Under the Appearance category, choose Themes.
- 3. Click to select the Classic theme.
- 4. Click the Apply Classic button, then click OK.
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- *Mac OS
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- -Mac OS 8.6 or later
- -PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or faster processor, or G3
- -64 MB RAM
- -36 MB of free hard disk space
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- *Windows
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- -Windows 95, 98, or 98SE, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000
- -Pentium 233 MHz (or faster) processor
- -64 MB RAM
- -26 MB of free hard disk space
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- *Unix
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- -Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 7.0 with X11 R6
- [Note: Netscape 6 is certified and fully supported
- on Red Hat Linux, but will run on other Linux
- distributions, such as Debian 2.1 (or later) or SuSE 6.2
- (or later). The libraries glibc 2.1 (or higher) and
- libjpeg.so.62 (or higher) are required.]
- -Pentium 233 MHz (or faster) processor
- -64 MB of RAM
- -26 MB of free hard disk space
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- Installation Instructions
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- For Mac OS and Windows users, it is strongly recommended that you
- exit all programs before running the setup program. Also, you
- should temporarily disable virus-detection software.
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- Install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of released
- product builds may cause problems.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Windows
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- Note: For Windows 2000 and Windows NT systems, you must have
- Administrator privileges to install Netscape 6. If you see
- an "Error 5" message during installation, log on with
- Administrator privileges and try installing again.
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Double-click the Windows directory on the Netscape 6
- CD to open it, if you haven't done so already.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Click the N6Setup.exe link to download it to your
- machine.
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- 2. Double-click the N6Setup program icon on your machine
- to begin the Setup program.
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- 3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the Setup program.
- The program starts automatically the first time.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Mac OS
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Skip to step 3 now.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Click the Netscape6Installer.sea.bin link to download it
- to your machine.
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- By default, the download file (compressed, in .bin format)
- is downloaded to your desktop.
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- If the downloaded file does not expand automatically, you
- must expand the file using a program such as StuffIt Expander.
- If you don't have StuffIt Expander, you can get a copy by
- visiting:
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- http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html
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- 2. Double-click the Netscape6Installer folder.
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- 3. Double-click the Netscape 6 Installer icon.
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- 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation
- process. The program starts automatically the first time.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Unix
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Change to the Linux directory on the CD: cd linux. Then skip to
- step 3.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Download the netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz archive.
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- 2. Type the following to gunzip and untar the archive:
- tar -zxvf netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz
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- 3. Run the Netscape 6 Installer with the run script:
- ./netscape-installer
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- 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation
- process.
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- 5. To start Netscape, change to the directory where you installed it
- and run the program: ./netscape
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