Re: Package Management and Mozilla
From: Rebel Lord (taranis_at_wrayzend.valhalla.org)
Date: 09/17/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:58:25 +1200
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:31:06 -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Dave Brown wrote:
>> 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.
>>
Well yes it is you'll find fairly up to date rpms at the major
repositories. However they are often very picky of other libraries and can
be a little unstable.
It's of the few one apps I don't use in rpm form, the other being amsn
The testing tar is up to 1.8 and the stable 1.72, it isn't hard to
grab the tar.gz and type tar -zvxf then symlink the mozilla
program to /usr/bin/mozilla. You can then safely delete the directory your
previous mozilla installed to. Your home/.mozilla will stay in tact and
your bookmarks are still there pretty simple really.
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