I have Suse 10.0 with the version of Firefox that came with it (1.0.7). I want to update it to the latest 1.5.0.2, but Firefox is less than helpful in telling me how to replace the old version with the new! I can run 1.5 from a separate directory but why can't I do a proper replacement? I bet the same is true of Thunderbird when I come to update that.

Why dont you just use YAST?

regards

Well I thought Yast only works with rpm's? (you can probably tell I'm new to this stuff).

Why not use the rpms?
Download from here :

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/10.0

install with "rpm -Uvh *.rpm"

if you are planning to install 1.5.0.1 then either install 1.5.0.2 from sources or wait for suse's rpm
1.5.0.1 has serious security problems:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu...abilities.html

firefox 1.5.0.2 tarballs are already available

obviously update 1.0.7 to 1.0.8:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631/

You can still manually integrate with SuSE from a tarball. It's easy enough with KDE and probably similar with Gnome. Right click Kmenu and select menu editor. Drill down thru Internet and Web Browser. Select Firefox. Click Command folder and browse to the firefox binary you just installed. Now the command points to the new Firefox. Be sure to Save using the toolbar floppy icon. Now execute KDE Control Center and select KDE Components. Select Component Chooser and the Web Browser. Again drill down to the new binary. File Associations link thru Kmenu so you need not change any of those.

frangos,

I have to say that your explanation and steps were the most clear by far from what I have read on this site. Thanks, you even helped me.

Thanks fragos, I think you've just solved a problem I had. I had already figured out how to set it up correctly in the KMenu when installing a tarball but got

KDEInit could not launch 'firefox'.:
Could not find 'firefox' executable.

whenever I clicked on a .html file for example, didn't know how to fix this until now. I will do the Control Centre stuff and let you know if it works.

Cheers

It worked but I had to specify the path to the executable file. Still can't get firefox to work by issuing 'firefox' on the command line.

I installed the tarball in /opt/MozillaFirefox/. Tried this because I had problems when I installed it in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ but now realise they were due to KDE integration problem. Anyone know how to make firefox executable from command line by just typing 'firefox'?

On the command line do "echo $PATH". This will give you all of the directories that are searched for executables. I install tarballs in the /home/fragos/bin directory which is in that list. If you install in a non-PATH directory you will need to use the full /dir/file name in Kmenu. You could of course also add to $PATH.

Once again thanks, obviously my morning coffee hadn't kicked in and in a Sunday AM
mindset, the obvious occurred to me also when I was thinking about it in the shower!

Cheers

Thank you everyone for your help. I am now a happy Easter bunny!

Petermcp