Upgrading Mozilla
 

I have Red Hat 8.0 and with it came Mozilla 1.0.1. The Mozilla 1.0.1 is located in /usr/include. I created a new mozilla-1.3b file. I downloaded the rpms for 1.3b from mozilla.org. The GUI installer cannot find the file that I attempt to install (any of them). Where are the directions for this type of upgrade? Must it be done at shell/root? Or can it be done with the GUI? Also, what do I need to do to get the java to work in mozilla?

The installer does not use RPM files. If you have problems, download the 'full installer' package (more than 10MB). It has all the packages included.

What i did was first uninstall the old version of mozilla:

rpm -qa | grep mozilla

The output should give you the currently installed mozilla packages. I uninstalled them by doing:

rpm -e mozilla-whatever

Then install the new packages:

rpm -Uvh mozilla-whatever

RedHat's rpm gui has been acting funny so I prefer the command line install. Oh yeah you must be root to do this.

I tried that and got lots of error messages explaining why it could not uninstall. I did install 1.3b. 1.3b does not work. 1.0.1 works. Still have java problem. Java is installed (recognized at shell prompt). I would like to get into Yahoo bridge which requires java. It will not load. Neither does the scroller on BBC News Home Page.

Okay. How about:

rpm --nodeps -e mozilla-whatever

That should do the trick.

Thanks for your assistance. I successfully uninstalled Mozilla 1.01. Now I cannot seem to install Mozilla 1.2.

:D Well at least half your problems are over. What exactly is the issue with installing it?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/r...RPMS/xft/i386/

just installed redhat 8 from iso's from linuxiso.org the other night. wanted her to have nice pretty anti-aliased fonts so i grabbed all the *.rpms from the above link and downloaded then into a folder i had created under her home directory. su'd to root and installed like so:

cd /directory/the/fresh/rpms/are/in
su
(enter your root password and hit enter key)
rpm -Uvh mozilla*


that's it. next things was to grab a copy of this file:
http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/x....7-13.i386.rpm

so she could play shoutcast streams and she's good to go ;)

pretty fonts and loads of musac. everyone is happy.