[newbie] Updating Mozilla
I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on this list, I should: 1. Download recent Mozilla and Galeon RPMs, preferably mdk specific ones. Perhaps from Texstar's site? 2. Upgrade Mozilla and Galeon. Test. 3. Install the Spanish language pack for Mozilla. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please speak up. I normally prefer the trial and error approach, but this particular job must be completed today without error or fail. I've already downloaded Mozilla 1.2.1 and Galeon 1.2.8 as tarballs, but after reading previous posts on this list I get the impression that I would be better off with RPMs. One of these days I'll learn how to roll my own RPMs from tarballs, but today's not the day. The reason I need to upgrade Mozilla is not so much the limitations of 0.98 as the fact that I can't get the Spanish language pack to install and I need a Spanish Mozilla working by OOB tomorrow for a course I'm teaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:51 am, Warren Post wrote: I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on this list, I should: 1. Download recent Mozilla and Galeon RPMs, preferably mdk specific ones. Perhaps from Texstar's site? 2. Upgrade Mozilla and Galeon. Test. 3. Install the Spanish language pack for Mozilla. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please speak up. I normally prefer the trial and error approach, but this particular job must be completed today without error or fail. I've already downloaded Mozilla 1.2.1 and Galeon 1.2.8 as tarballs, but after reading previous posts on this list I get the impression that I would be better off with RPMs. One of these days I'll learn how to roll my own RPMs from tarballs, but today's not the day. The reason I need to upgrade Mozilla is not so much the limitations of 0.98 as the fact that I can't get the Spanish language pack to install and I need a Spanish Mozilla working by OOB tomorrow for a course I'm teaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? Yeah, all those rpms are for 9.0 and you are running 8.2. Not gonna work unless you rebuild the src.rpms on your system, which will probably be a PITA. You might be better off upgrading to 9.0, or waiting a week and upgrading to 9.1. It will probably be less work ,plus you'll get all the other goodies in the new release. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla
I normally upgrade using the tarball from mozilla.org. 1. delete /usr/local/mozilla (don't know if it is necessary) 2. run the mozilla-installer you downloaded and untarred, as root 3. run mozilla as root, exit after it starts 4. run as normal user. 5. update the links to the plugins (Flash, Java...) under the 'plugin' diretcory, as root One important thing: the installer creates under /usr/local/mozilla a number of directories and files. For some reason, the 'components' directory gets created with wrong attributes, so mozilla can run only for root. Before you can run as normal user, you need to # chmod og+rx components as root. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on this list, I should: 1. Download recent Mozilla and Galeon RPMs, preferably mdk specific ones. Perhaps from Texstar's site? 2. Upgrade Mozilla and Galeon. Test. 3. Install the Spanish language pack for Mozilla. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please speak up. I normally prefer the trial and error approach, but this particular job must be completed today without error or fail. I've already downloaded Mozilla 1.2.1 and Galeon 1.2.8 as tarballs, but after reading previous posts on this list I get the impression that I would be better off with RPMs. One of these days I'll learn how to roll my own RPMs from tarballs, but today's not the day. The reason I need to upgrade Mozilla is not so much the limitations of 0.98 as the fact that I can't get the Spanish language pack to install and I need a Spanish Mozilla working by OOB tomorrow for a course I'm teaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla
So far, so good, with thanks to Raffaele and Todd for suggesting that I use a tarball and not RPM. I had to kill my /user/.mozilla file before the Spanish language pack would work, but that's no problem. Thanks again. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
