I installed "everything" during my Red Hat 9 installation. I wanted to upgrade to Mozilla 1.3. So, I first tried to uninstall 1.2.1 using Add/Remove Programs (ie. Package Manager). When I selected to remove it, I went to Grapcal Internet and unchecked Mozilla. I then clicked update and got the error:

The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed.

libgkgfx.so
libgtkembedmoz.so
mozilla = 1.2.1-26

and the list goes on. Next to each is shows a program that the files are "Required By".

I got Mozilla 1.3 installed per the release notes and it is working, but how do I get rid of 1.2.1.?

Also, in the 1.3 release notes, it said that if you ever want to remove 1.3, you go to package manager and select Mozilla 1.3. I don't see it there.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

It may give you more sensical information if you try (as root):

rpm -e mozilla

Hopefully this will show you the other RPMs that are depending on it.

So what I got was:

[root@sforsgren-linux-01 vsftpd]# rpm -e mozilla
error: Failed dependencies:
libgkgfx.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-dom-inspector-1.2.1-26
libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by (installed) kdebindings-3.1-6
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.2.1-26
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-psm-1.2.1-26
mozilla = 35:1.2.1 is needed by (installed) galeon-1.2.7-3
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-chat-1.2.1-26
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.2.1-26
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-dom-inspector-1.2.1-26
mozilla = 1.2.1-26 is needed by (installed) mozilla-js-debugger-1.2.1-26 mozilla is needed by (installed) plugger-4.0-23

So, is that to say that in order to remove Mozilla, I hav to remove all of these other things first? Then upgrade to 1.3 then reinstall all of the items above? That seems like a pretty involved process. Please advise.

Thanks

When you say you have got Mozilla 1.3 installed, I take it you downloaded the Linux binary from Mozilla's site (mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3-sea.tar.gz) ?

It is probably safe to uninstall mozilla 1.2.1 with
rpm -e mozilla --nodeps

But a better way might be to remove that Mozilla 1.3 you installed and download Mozilla 1.3 RPMs:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.3
(They say they're for version 8 but work fine with 9)

If you use Gnome 2, get the GTK2 enabled ones, otherwise the Xft ones are probably better, not sure though....

Once you've got a whole set of the rpms in a directory, cd to the dir and try:

rpm -Uvh mozilla* --nodeps

That should replace everything that the non-mozilla programs were depending on 1.2.1.

Thanks for the ideas.

I tried exactly what you said and now I have a couple of new issues.

1) When going to About to validate the version, I get an error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
Line Number 95, Column 15:<li>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 by <a
href="about:credits">Contributors to
--------------^

Then, with the full installer version of 1.3, that was the first time that I was able to get Mozilla to print. After removing that and doing the RPM install, I can no longer print. I assume that is because it does not have xprint support?

Seems like the 1.3 install more or less worked. I got no errors back from RPM. So, it might have overwritten 1.2.1 which is great, but now I have these other 2 issues.

So, I went for your second option which was rpm -e mozilla --nodeps and then reran the full installer (not the rpm version).

That seems to have worked. I am now on 1.3 and can print and also assume that 1.2.1 is gone.

Now do I need to worry about having problems with some of the dependencies that kept the Package Manager from allowing me to remove it before.

Thoughts?

Thanks

Most likely not, but it's hard to guarantee anything. I have a RH9 install using the Mozilla 1.3 GTK2 rpms and have had no problems, but my install was much smaller than yours