Re: Package Management and Mozilla
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 09/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:35:11 -0000
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In comp.os.linux.misc Dave Brown <dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.net> suggested:
> I'm a firm believer in the virtues of package management. And yet one of
> the major Linux applications which seems to need frequent updating is
> Mozilla, and for reasons I can't fathom, is never distributed in RPMs,
> i.e., for RedHat, Fedora, or SuSE.
> Mozilla provides some sort of installer, which seems to ignore the
> presence of previous versions, and requires a fair amount of "diddling" to
> get a machine updated. Are there better solutions of which I'm not aware?
Yup, a bit annoying that you won't find a rpm of the recent
version. Never took the time to make my own.
Usually, I install to /usr/local/mozilla-<version>, copy the
"plugins" dir over and make a symlink, so I can fall back in a
second, if something doesn't work out.
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Sep 11 21:23 mozilla -> mozilla-1.8a-RC3/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 12 21:13 mozilla-1.8a
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Sep 11 21:22 mozilla-1.8a-RC3
[..]
BTW
You should try firefox 1.0, it really rocks, installing plugins is
done in a second and there are some nice extensions, like "zoom".
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