[rescue] q concerning freeware.sgi.com

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Thu May 29 09:46:41 CDT 2003


Kurt Huhn said ...
> "Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366" <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
>
> > Can any IRIX guru's clue me in on why an install of Mozilla needs to
> > have frickin' ORBit (a corba request broker) installed, along with
> > gcc?
>
> Don't use the freeware package of Mozilla.  Go to:
> http://opensource.sgi.com
> and download the binary from there.  It's got no dependencies and you can
> install it wherever you want - I stuck mine in /opt.

Thanks for the pointer!

Another question ... assuming one wants to use the freeware.sgi.com
tardists, is there an easy way to batch up a bunch of downloads from the
command line?

-Shel



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