On Friday 13 August 2004 14:33, Jack Byers wrote: > Jack Byers byersj@xxxxxxxxxxx > running rh8.0 > > i am in middle of trying to upgrade or rather fresh install of mozilla 1.7 > the instructions on moz site look complete and download of the installer > is easy > > but they say to uninstall old version before doing any new install <snip> > so, do i 'rm' all of above? The mozilla already there is probably the one shipped with RH 8.0, installed using RPM. You can try uninstalling all of them using: 1. Get the mozilla related packages: rpm -qa | grep mozilla you'll probably get something like: mozilla, mozilla-nspr, etc 2. Remove them using 'rpm -e <package_name>' where package name is the package you found from step 1. I would guess it would fail due to some sort of dependancy problem. If that's the case, just don't worry about uninstalling them, they would not interfere with the new installed mozilla, I promise :) All you need to do then, install the new version mozilla in a separate directory, ie: /usr/local/mozilla-1.7 (you can set this up with the installer). Then, to make sure that you run the new mozilla version when you type "mozilla", you can 1. Move the mozilla executable in /usr/bin to mozilla.old, for example. $> mv /usr/bin/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla.old 2. Make a symlink from /usr/bin to the newly installed mozilla, so that the newly installed mozilla is in the path automatically, eg: $> ln -s /usr/local/mozilla-1.7/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla Do those as root. Then whenever you need to install plugins, remember that the mozilla install directory is /usr/local/mozilla-1.7 (of course, adjust this to whatever directory you decide to install mozilla-1.7 to) Hope that helps. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
