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http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/14/remi/i386/repoview/ http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/14/remi/x86_64/repoview/ Never install any software without a RPM if there is no really good reason and "firfox 4 is available" is really no reason even if that would mean update to Fedora 14 and wait the time to the release Am 24.03.2011 18:39, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Genes MailLists wrote: >> Or you can simply download it direct from mozilla.org and install it >> in /usr/local/ > > I don't think bypassing package management is something we want to > recommend. > > Not only is stuff installed that way not built according to Fedora > guidelines, which leads to issues like the ones Pete Zaitcev pointed out, > but it is also hard to uninstall without leaving residual files, which also > implies that upgrades sometimes leave old versions of the files sitting > around. > > Sometimes you have no other choice, e.g. for SAGE (http://sagemath.org) > which is still not packaged anywhere (because it's a royal PITA to package), > but generally, installing software from tarballs is a bad idea. Whenever an > RPM exists, using that RPM is almost always the better plan. > > Kevin Kofler > -- Mit besten Grüßen, Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / software-development / cms-solutions p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/
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