can't start Netscape 7.1 after installation.

[g386kin]

Hi,
I am new to linux. I installed the new Netscape 7.1 following the Netscape site insturction. After the installation, the Netscape 7.1 auto started and was fine. But after I closed the netscape and start it again, everytime I got was the old netscape came with the RedHat linux. I installed in the /usr/local/netscape7.1, then I go to /usr/local/netscape7.1 to start the new netscape. Please, everyone can tell me why and offer any help?
By the way how can I fine out which RedHat I have installed on my pc?
thanks

[Hellmasker]

rpm -qa|grep -i redhat
should show u. it does in mandrake anyway. also jsut press ctrl+alt+f1 and its probably written at the top of the login.

run

whereis netscape

and this shoudl show u where the netscape executable is.

then run

ls -l /path/to/netscape/exe

it will probably be a symlink to /usr/local/netscape6/ns or something.

if it is a symlink then remove it and type

ln -s /usr/local/netscape71/netscape /usr/bin/netscape

note: replace the first bit with wherever your new netscape execuatable is.

if it is a real program then just run

mv /usr/bin/netscape /usr/bin/netscape.old

then run the ln -s.... thing. The idea beign to get your new symlink to have the same name as the old one so your menus will still work.

[nikhil]

# cat /etc/issue
should also show you the version of redhat.

[Dolda2000]

I think the most canonical way to check is to look at the file /etc/redhat-release...