updating firefox and installing programs

I Got slackware 10.2 installed and using KDE. I'm trying to install Firefox 1.5.0.1. Idownloaded the tarball, What directery do i exctract it to to update? Plus what directery do i exctract other tarballs toinstall programs?

When there's no installation package you just have to untar the file wherever you want and then you run the executable. This happens with Firefox as well. I was wondering the same before some weeks
You can also replace the old links of Firefox with the news but I don't know how you can change when you type "firefox" in the console to run the new one.

Why not use the Slackware package? Its all done for you.

yourmirror/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/

or the main site
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages

Used gFTP to open ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages and it gives me a list of files. What files do i need?

You can install pre-built Slackware packages (ones you get from www.linuxpackages.net, for example) with

# installpkg filename.tgz

from within the directory in which they're located. For source packages, see this. Note that not all packages that come in .tar.gz are source (Firefox isn't) and you can get source packages ending in .tgz (and those aren't pre-built Slackware packages!) or .tar.bz2.

Just to expand on what has been said, if you have a Slack package installed which you want to upgrade, download it to a directory of your choice (gftp is fine (use binary mode)). Then open a console, cd to your download dir, and

upgradepkg oldpackagename%newpackagename

in your case the package is mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-i686-1.tgz

tobyl

Originally Posted by tobyl Why not use the Slackware package? Its all done for you.

Because you may want to use a language other than American English.

In which case you can use the Slackware Firefox SlackBuild with the non US English binaries to produce a package for your language (I've used Pat's SlackBuild with the en-GB binaries and they work fine without any modification).

zyphix it seems everyone went their own direction with your question. I just updated to firefox 1.5.0.1, so here is how i did it.

tar -zxvf 'filename.tar.gz'
su root
rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox

then move your extracted directory to where the old one was.

mv firefox /usr/lib/firefox

make sure you name the directory the same as the first one, otherwise none of your links will work.

on a side note, i've noticed lots of bugs with firefox 1.5.0.1. must of them have to do with macromedia flash, and it seems to be dislike waiting on dns servers. Meaning you will have to hit "try again" a bunch

i should really read all the posts before i throw up mine.

Originally Posted by cathectic In which case you can use the Slackware Firefox SlackBuild with the non US English binaries to produce a package for your language (I've used Pat's SlackBuild with the en-GB binaries and they work fine without any modification).

Thank you for that information.

My method is simply to download the EN-GB version of the app and install it in /~/bin each time it's updated.

regards

dkpw

KDE came with a package manager. got it installed.