Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:20, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi, a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading the installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to uninstall the old mozilla before installing the new release. my Q is : can't I just use the rpm upgrade option instead of uninstalling ? will that save my bookmarks though ?! if uninstalling is required...how can I do that :) ? You can export your bookmarks to an html file. Open mozilla and click Bookmarks Manage Bookmarks. In the window click File Export Bookmarks and save to your home dir. Importing/Exporting bookmarks is also handy for sharing your bookmarks between different browsers. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] installing the new mozilla
skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps and it gives me the following error: file /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so form install of mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk conflicts ith file from package libnss3-3.2.1-6mdk as a newbie with no clue ... i guessed that the error must have came from the 5mdk and the 6mdk part ... and I thought the --nodepss should take care of that ():-) what other option can I use for this kind of error ?? Regards - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] installing the new mozilla
On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps and it gives me the following error: file /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so form install of mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk conflicts ith file from package libnss3-3.2.1-6mdk as a newbie with no clue ... i guessed that the error must have came from the 5mdk and the 6mdk part ... and I thought the --nodepss should take care of that ():-) what other option can I use for this kind of error ?? Regards - Hanan AL-Shargi IIRC, I had to force an upgrade of mozilla. ie. rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force mozilla-0.9.xmdk.ix56.rpm I just checked and I have both /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so and /usr/lib/mozilla/libnssckbi.so installed. The first one is from the libnss3 package which couldn't be uninstalled (IIRC) because netscape (or was it evolution) needed it. The force has not caused any problems for me. Mozilla, netscape (and evolution) work fine. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing the new mozilla
Skinky, Many many thanks... I used the --force option and I'm running mozilla 0.9.8 now :-) This is a GR8 list Regards , = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps and it gives me the following error: file /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so form install of mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk conflicts ith file from package libnss3-3.2.1-6mdk as a newbie with no clue ... i guessed that the error must have came from the 5mdk and the 6mdk part ... and I thought the --nodepss should take care of that ():-) what other option can I us e for this kind of error ?? Regards - Hanan AL-Shargi IIRC, I had to force an upgrade of mozilla. ie. rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force mozilla-0.9.xmdk.ix56.rpm I just checked and I have both /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so and /usr/lib/mozilla/libnssckbi.so installed. The first one is from the libnss3 package which couldn't be uninstalled (IIRC) because netscape (or was it evolution) needed it. The force has not caused any problems for me. Mozilla, netscape (and evolution) work fine. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:20:07 -0500, Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading the installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to uninstall the old mozilla before installing the new release. my Q is : can't I just use the rpm upgrade option instead of uninstalling ? You are less likely to have problems if you uninstall the old version first. I know I had some problems when I upgraded to Mozilla 0.9.8. will that save my bookmarks though ?! Your bookmarks should be saved in ~/.mozilla directory. The contents of your ~ (home) directory are completely separate from the actual application files that the RPM installs. Your user data will be safe if you remove Mozilla. if uninstalling is required...how can I do that :) ? # rpm -e FILE... Mozilla consists of several packages. You need to uninstall and reinstall all of them to have a full implementation of 0.9.8: libjs libnspr4 libnspr4-devel libnss3 libnss3-devel mozilla mozilla-devel mozilla-dom-inspector mozilla-irc mozilla-js-debugger mozilla-mail mozilla-xmlterm If you have dependency problems with Nautilus, Galeon or Evolution when removing the packages, use the --nodeps switch. Dependency problems with anything else may indicate that something is wrong. The --force switch should only be used if you really know what you're doing, since there is a good chance that you'll break something in your system. If you use your system carefully enough, you shouldn't ever have to use --force. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Are you all on drugs? Get your acts together, guys. Stop blathering and frothing at the mouth -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla
My experience has been that it really is best to uninstall Moz when installing the latest release. It's easy: rpm -U name_of_rpm Or, you can use your package manager--just look around until you find the version of Moz that you're using and hit the uninstall tab--poof, it's gone. Backup your bookmarks.html file first, and you can just replace the default one's with your own. Look in /home/username/.mozilla/default/somefile_with_letters_and_numbers.sit I can't give you the actual name of that last directory because it appears to be different on every machine (at least it is on mine). e. On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:20:07 -0500 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading the installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to uninstall the old mozilla before installing the new release. my Q is : can't I just use the rpm upgrade option instead of uninstalling ? will that save my bookmarks though ?! if uninstalling is required...how can I do that :) ? regards. - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
