Mozilla Update

[skiflyer]

Why do I feel I'll be here alot for a few days...

Ok, so I like testing the newer mozilla's so I went and DL'd the 1.4a net installer, unpacked it and ran it.

Mozilla 1.4a autolaunched on completion, and clicking any of the mozilla icons on either my panel, or this thing which is equivalent to the start menu launched another 1.4a window.

Then I close all the browser windows and reclick an icon... bam, back to 1.2

So I go to the terminal, go the /usr/mozilla directory where I installed 1.4a, and type ./mozilla and again up comes 1.2

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong, do I need to manually remove 1.2 first?

-Rob

 

[skiflyer]

Ok, so the icons were just launching "mozilla" with no path, so I deleted them and put new ones in which point to the proper mozilla...

Problem,
I still have the old mozilla installed I guess, I want it gone.

Problem,
If I go to the Add Remove Applications, it says starting Add Remove Packages, starts to read the RPM headers, then just closes... any advice?

Problem,
I have that little red exclamation point hanging out at the bottom right of the screen, I click it I get a list of Package Names, Version Installed, and Available... how do I go about installing the new versions easily? (I really liked apt-get install <module>, do I get something similar?)

Thanks, hope I'm not burying my own question in this thread, but I didn't want to start new threads for everything.

-Rob

 

[danielhozac]

Did you install Mozilla with an RPM?

I haven't used the graphical managers, as most tend to be quite buggy. You could use the command [tt]rpm -qa[/tt] directly instead.

If you register yourself as a RHN user, you should be able to run [tt]up2date[/tt] (which is the program creating that red exclamation point) to update all, or the ones you select, of your packages.

//Daniel

 

[flugh]

Call me lazy or scared, I tend to get 'bleeding edge' mozilla in the tarball flavor and install it to my home directory (trying to keep it from littering up /usr/... with stuff and possibly breaking something). Makes it easy to just 'rm -rf' to uninstall (and still keep from breaking something ;-) ).

The reason the old mozilla starts is probably because the first instance of an executable file named 'mozilla' in your $PATH is a symlink to the old version. Aside from uninstalling the old version of mozilla (then probably having to reinstall the new one to get all symlinks refixed or do it manually), you could make your $HOME/bin first in your $PATH, then just make a symlink there named 'mozilla' to any version of it you have on your system (easy way to do a 'seamless' install of mozilla to your $HOME dir).


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JR