On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:15, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote: > I just re-read my earlier post and saw it was less than clear. I will > repost again to try and clean it up a bit... > > I have just installed RH7.2 and when I ran Mozilla for the first time, it > suggested that, for security reasons, Mozilla needed to be upgraded. I > fumbled around between the GUI and terminal windows and finally got the > latest release of Mozilla downloaded and installed. For me, this was a big > step and quite a coup. However... > > As root running Gnome, I have the Gnome icon for Mozilla properly pointing > to the location of the new version of Mozilla - which is: > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla > > But my non-root user's Gnome-Mozilla icon (the lizard head) does not > point to that new install of Mozilla - it invokes the old installation. > I could manually change it, but I know there must be some way to have > this updated for all users. Is that correct? So that when I create > accounts on this machine, they will all use this newest version of > Mozilla. Should I delete the old version and move the new one into the > same location (/usr/bin/mozilla)?
I can think of several ways, however i think the easiest would be to simply delete the old version or rename it, then create a symlink in /usr/bin called mozilla. ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla mozilla AFAIK that should work. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
