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- Netscape 6.1 Read Me
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- Netscape 6.1 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 6.1, be sure to read the
- Release Notes, which describe known problems and
- installation issues:
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- http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns61/relnotes/61.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 6.1.
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- To select the Classic theme after you have installed
- Netscape 6.1:
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- 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.
- Changed themes take effect after you restart
- Netscape 6.1.
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- During installation, the creation of temporary files
- requires more free disk space than listed below.
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- *Mac OS
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- -Mac OS 8.6 or later, Mac OS 9
- -PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or faster processor, G3,
- or G4
- -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 ME, 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, 6.2, and 7.0 with X11 R6
- [Note: Netscape 6.1 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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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Double-click the Windows directory on the
- Netscape 6.1 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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- Note: It is strongly recommended that you do not
- disable extensions before installing Netscape 6.1
- on 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
- MacBinary II format, with an extension of .bin)
- 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 Netscape 6 Installer
- 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 one of the following to gunzip and
- untar the archive:
- tar -zxvf netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz
- OR
- gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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- 3. Change to the directory that contains the
- Netscape installation files:
- cd netscape-installer
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- 4. Run the Netscape 6.1 Installer with the run
- script:
- ./netscape-installer
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- 5. Follow the on-screen instructions to
- complete the installation process.
-
- 6. To start Netscape, change to the directory
- where you installed it and run the program:
- ./netscape
- The program starts automatically the first time.
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- 17 July, 2001
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