[NTLUG:Discuss] Best way to upgrade Mozilla?

[Peter A. Koren]

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 with the latest Mozilla and did exactly what
Stuart did. The tar gzipped Mozzila must be statically linked. There
were no library problems. My old version of Mozilla -- rpm based -- is
now like a vestigial organ -- there, but not used.

I am so fed up with the dependency problems of rpm, that I prefer to use
*.tar.gz packages between Linux distribution upgrades to avoid the
problems.

-- Pete

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 09:09, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 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.  
> > 
> > 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
> 
> If none of the RPMS mentioned in other message work for you: if you are 
> installing from tar.gz you really don't need to remove the RPMs.  The 
> tar.gz installer will usually put the new version under /usr/local/ 
> where it will not confict with the old RPM version.
> 
> Also, you might want to use one of the xft contrib builds if you system 
> has that capability:
> 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/contrib/
> 
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