Re: fedora and mozilla 1.5

From: Knute Johnson (nospam_at_sagebrush.frazmtn.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:35:43 -0800

Lenard wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:25:06 -0800, Knute Johnson typed:
>
>
>>I installed fedora and thought I would upgrade the mozilla from 1.4.1 to
>>1.5. I downloaded the Gtk rpms and tried to update the existing
>>mozilla. rpm complained of dependency problems. So I thought I would
>>just remove all of the 1.4.1 rpms one at a time and then load the 1.5
>>rpms. I couldn't remove the mozilla, mozilla-nss, or mozilla-nspr
>>because they were used by epiphany and Open Office 1.1.0. So then I
>>thought I would just put the 1.4.1 mozilla rpms back. When I used the
>>add/remove programs option I got an error and it won't reload mozilla
>>mail and a couple of the other programs. Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>
>
> Install the mozilla-1.5 RPM's at one time, as root;
>
> rpm -Uvh mozilla*.rpm

That wasn't working but it was because there is a program called
epiphany that rpm said needed 1.4.1. I removed it and it Mozilla
updates with no problems. I'll have to see if I can reload epiphany now.

Thanks, 

-- 
Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/
Molon labe...

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