[NTLUG:Discuss] Mozilla 1.0 w/ RedHat

./aal al_h at technologist.com
Mon Jun 10 08:51:32 CDT 2002


Aaron Goldblatt wrote:
>>Have you tried running their automatic installer?  It appears to pull
>>whichever set of files your system needs and do *all* the work for you.
>>I havn't tried it on a RedHat system - but that works *great* for SuSE
>>machines.
> 
> 
> There is one hiccup with the auto-installer, at least on my
> (SuSE 8.0) machine. It fries the plugins directory.
> 

The instructions say NOT to install on top of an old install.

> To preserve it, tar it up, do the install to the same directory (under
> SuSE 8, it's /opt/mozilla), tell it Y to get rid of the old stuff, and
> then when it's done, untar the plugins back into place.  This will be
> useful if you've got Acrobat Reader or Flash or (heaven forbid) the JRE
> installed

or rename your ./mozilla to mozilla-old and copy your old setup from 
there to the new directory after install





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