Mozilla & Firefox

[Olaf Olson]

Eric,

I see you got it before I could respond with advice. Bill also mentioned 
"spiffing up your yum.conf" instructions at the FAQ site. Since that 
involves changing it to include a more reliable mirror for ydl 3.0.1, 
it's still a good idea. firefox, thunderbird, and even mozilla 1.6 come 
from freshrpms.net, which, I see you have found.

The FAQ also suggests some more yum commands that are useful, among them

yum -help
yum list partialname*   where you replace partialname with part of the 
name of the product you want information about

[root at PlanB-YDL root]# yum list firefox
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
Server: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 freshrpms
Server: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in Available Packages:
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking in Installed Packages:
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
firefox                             ppc    0.9.2-5.0.yd3.fr         db

This should also tell you that which you must already know. You must be 
root to properly use yum. You can use "sudo yum..." but I prefer to 
actually *be* root, so I can do a few other things while I am installing 
or waiting to install.

Olaf

Eric D wrote:

> 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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