question about netscape

[sick]

I thought to be able to use a command with out having to put a ./ you just had to make a symbolis link to it in your /usr/bin directory. Either I am wrong or it just doest work with netscape 6.0. so I end up copy the whole netscape directory over to my /usr/bin and it doesn't then either. So first I am asking, how do I get commands to work with out the ./, second I need to get all the files outa of my /usr/bin. I try a "ls /usr/local/netscape | rm" and it told me I didn't have enough aurguments for rm. So is there a untility that is oppsite of diff? or what command can I issue to get all those file out and last how is the world do I use netscape without having to be in the netsacpe directory using ./

thanks you

sick

[David]

right, if you have netscape 6.x in /usr/local/netscape/

type the following:


rm /usr/bin/netscape6

This will remove any files called netscape 6 in case there are ones

ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape6

The symlink is called netscape6
The easy way around this is just to put a shortcut on your GNOME/KDE/KDE2 desktoppointing to /usr/local/netscape/netscape

Does this help?

[sick]

I did try all that but what I ended up doing was wirtting a real simple script and putting it in my /usr/bin directory

[mcrites]

Or you can add the directory to your $PATH statement in /etc/profile or your shells startup script in your home directory ;)
Sometimes it can be bad moving directories around, if something is expecting a lib to be in a certain directory, such as in /etc/ld.so.conf. The best thing to do is put it in your $PATH variable.