On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Bob Smith wrote: > Actually, you can overwrite an old installation, or create a parallel > installation, but upgrades are questionable. Generally, it appears that > the tar.gz bundles from Mozilla are complete packages. If you do a > parallel install, then you can import old boomarks, etc., which is often > a safer way to install. Why not just use the RPM? There's one for Fedora Core 2 at at http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/firefox-0.9.1-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm. The obvious change to the above URL will get you the one for FC1. > > -Bob > > Stephen W wrote: > > >Using RH 9.0 > > > >Downloading Firefoc 0.9 (I am presently using 0.8). > > > >I know that with an RPM I can use the -U to tell the > >RPM to Update the existing program. > > > >What happens when I use the *tar.gz file of firefox? > >Will it automatically simpley UPGRADE? Or Overwrite > >existing? Or create a parallell install? > > > >How do I handle such a situation? > > > >Thanks > >StephenW > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > >http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
