Mozilla & Firefox

[Eric D]

Re: installing FireFox

Well, that was shockingly simple (ok, by Mac standards extraordinarily 
complex but compared to what I was expecting...).

I modified

/etc/yum.conf

by adding

[fresh]
name=Somebodies fresh updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/

I just created that on a hunch and it seems to have worked (well, given that 
I've got the FireFox running I'd say it worked).

Now to see if I can actually get httpd updated using this method... no such 
luck (can't even figure out what version of httpd I'm running since httpd 
isn't running for me on the command line (guess I don't know enough yet to 
get an ornery app to run)).

Eric.

>From: Olaf Olson <oolson at hadleyconnection.com>
>Reply-To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List 
><yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List 
><yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: Re: Mozilla & Firefox
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:26:48 -0700
>
>As they are separate executables, I should think they don't interfere, but, 
>since they access the same profiles, etc., they should definitely not run 
>simultaneously. I also suspect that you wouldn't really want to do that 
>anyway. That's why I suggested removing mozilla and installing firefox and 
>thunderbird. If you're not using mozilla for e-mail, then don't install 
>thunderbird and be happy with the mozilla browser without the added bulk, 
>aka. firefox.
>
>Olaf
>
>Eric D wrote:
>
>>So does this mean that Mozilla and FireFox are mutually exclusive. You can 
>>have the one installed, but not the other?
>>
>>Eric.
>>
>>>From: Olaf Olson <oolson at hadleyconnection.com>
>>>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:04:36 -0700
>>>
>>>Eric,
>>>
>>>There's supposed to be a method for installing Mozilla 1.7 and I think 
>>>1.8, too. Check the archives of this list and the General list for the 
>>>announcement. I've never been able to make it work and there is currently 
>>>no YUM repository with a newer version than 1.6. If you do a yum upgrade 
>>>mozilla, you'll get that version if freshrpms is in your yum.conf file.
>>>
>>>I have found that removing mozilla and installing firefox gives you the 
>>>1.7 equivalent browser, but you have to use an external e-mail client. I 
>>>was using Thunderbird, with a different browser, and find that it still 
>>>works fine with Firefox, is more current for both the browser and email 
>>>applications than the current yum-able mozilla, installs with yum, and 
>>>just generally works well.
>>>
>>>yum remove mozilla
>>>yum install firefox
>>>yum install thunderbird
>>>
>>>Removing mozilla does not delete user profiles. The new Firefox and 
>>>Thunderbird recognize the old mozilla profiles and stuff, so you still 
>>>will get continuity.
>>>
>>>Olaf
>>
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