[NTLUG:Discuss] Best way to upgrade Mozilla?

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:54:50PM -0600, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> I'm running an old version of Mozilla, 1.0.2, from RPM.  I'm trying to
> upgrade it to 1.6, but there is no RPM for it.  It only comes as a
> tar.gz file. 
> 
Which distro are you running?  I know there are a few places out there with
1.6 rpms, Fedora devel has a somewhat offical one as well...

> I'm trying to remove the RPM before I attempt to unpack and install the
> new version, but I'm getting these errors when I attempt rpm -e
> mozilla-1.0.2-2.8.0
> 
> root at newcomputer Wayne-KDE]# rpm -e mozilla-1.0.2-2.8.0
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libgkgfx.so is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-psm-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-psm-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla is needed by (installed) plugger-4.0-17
>         mozilla = 35:1.0.2 is needed by (installed) galeon-1.2.11-1.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-chat-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-devel-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-js-debugger-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-mail-1.0.2-2.8.0
>         mozilla = 1.0.2-2.8.0 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-psm-1.0.2-2.8.0
> 
> Since the attempt to remove it failed, what's the best way to get rid of
> the old version before I install the new?  Also, a locate mozilla
> returns a lot of stuff from mozilla 1.0.1 that isn't installed as an RPM
> as rpm -q mozilla only returns
> 
> root at newcomputer Wayne-KDE]# rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-1.0.2-2.8.0

I absolutely do not recommend the use of --nodeps in this situation.  rpm
has told you which packages have the dependencies, and this is valid.  To
better query which mozilla rpms are installed, you might try 'rpm -qa| 
grep mozilla' however, your output from the previous removal attempt
tells you that you need to 'rpm -e mozilla-1.0.2-2.8.0
mozilla-devel-1.0.2-2.8.0 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.0.2-2.8.0
mozilla-js-debugger-1.0.2-2.8.0 mozilla-mail-1.0.2-2.8.0
mozilla-psm-1.0.2-2.8.0 mozilla-chat-1.0.2-2.8.0 galeon-1.2.11-1.8.0
plugger-4.0-17' to do a proper removal.

Justin