All.. I am looking to upgrade the Mozilla that came loaded in RH7.2.. Since this is my first install of Linux .. How do I do that.. I downloaded the tar.. and inside was an installer.. i started to run it but stopped.. do i just load it in defaults.. will it update the mozilla loaded already.. OR do i have to uninstall the current version before proceeding.. also.. i have begun to toy with RPMs.. do i have to create an RPM of the update first?? maybe i am missing the meading of an RPM.. as you can see i am lost.. i just dont want to start doing things wrong from the get go.. i dont want another pc filled with useless files and duplicates.. (ie. windows). any help is appreciated..

r

easiest way is to upgrade with an rpom from rpmfind.net. there should be nightly builds listed there, there's one from 2 days ago, which is version 0.9.8, and you should have 0.9.2. you might need to remove the mozilla rpm and then install that one rather than just upgrading as it's not a standard redhat rpm, but you might get away with it, using 'gnorpm' to upgrade it of course. or...

to upgrade...

rpm -Uvh mozilla.....rpm

to remove...

rpm -e mozilla

to install

rpm -ivh mozilla............rpm

i'll try that.. thanks.. .

ok i tried to use the commands .. they ran fine.. however i cannot find where it installed them.. next i reinstalled it using one of RPMs.. KDE or GNO.. it showed up there .. i reinstalled it.. still coldnt find where it installed.. i couldnt find the executable.. what am i missing.. it has to be right in front of me..

r

Since you are in Linux OS, you can just type "locate <name>" and it will find the stuff for you.

Usually it puts a executable file in /usr/local/bin

i checked those files.. they are there .. the problem is that they do not run.. i verify the RPM and it is fine.. was there more than one RPM that I needed to download then just the 0.9.7.. maybesomeone can point me to the correct file/files.. i only wanted to update the browser so thats all i took.. do ihave to grab others or update everything (chat,mail, etc).. didnt think i had to .. r

So you did upgrade by rpm? Right? If so I don't see a resolution to the problem, try to download mozilla-psm and mozilla-devel and upgrade or install the packages in the way prescribed above, and check your path variable, in the XTerm (console) enter
echo $PATH
it will list the dirs separated by :
See if the binaries for mozilla are on your PATH.
If not then you have to add to the path the directory where binaries for mozilla are. Usually done with export statement
export /mozilla/binaries/directory
it will make one time only change to make it permanent append the /mozilla/binaries/directory in your
.bash_profile
file in your home directory( it is hidden file with a dot at the begining of file name),
look for the PATH statement
PATH=$PATH:/some/dir/
append /mozilla/binaries/dir
so it'll look like
PATH=$PATH:/some/dir:/mozilla/binaries/dir
, save and quit, and then run
source .bash_profile