When will be Firefox 1.0.6 and thunderbird available through YAST?

the answer is: when its ready. since 1.0.5 JUST came out, (like a week or so ago) I think it will be a while. Since opensource projects and products are devoted to quality, they don't force themselves to ship a half finished product to keep to a specific time table.

and if you are asking about the suse specific version, then it will take some time after that, so that someone can build the package.

titanium_geek

IMHO you don't need to wait for a SuSE RPM. The firefox and thunderbird tar files are a simple GUI install that doesn't require YaST for success. No compiles and makes required. I'm using firefox 1.0.6 on SuSE 9.2 for this reply.

Have you been able to update your desktop shortcut links and menu links to Firefox? I was able before to do a non-YaST install of Firefox 1.0.4 before it hit the FTP sites, but the prior version stayed linked up. I'm just wondering if there's an "easy" and dumb way of accomplishing this that I couldn't figure out Someone responded previously with a good post in another forum, but it was kind of short on details and required text editing. (Not to say that I wouldn't be glad to learn, but a lot of times the way I find is about a billion times more complicated than the way most people use )

Thanks!

It's always nice to use YaST because it runs suse-config and sets up all other config files as well. Helpful after software installation and good practice. Here is firefox 1.06:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.0.6/

Cool, thank you!

dang it- that came out fast. I stand corrected.

titanium_geek

The trick is to use the menu editor. Right clicking the leftmost Gecho icon in the toolbar. Select Internet and then Web Browser. There should be firefox and konqueror. select firefox and then select command to change the pointer to firefox, where you just installed it. If you always install firefox in the same directory, you won't need to do this again. Remember to save before quiting.

In control center select KDE components and then component chooser. The default browser and email can be set here.

I was recently wondering about this myself, I posted a question to Asa in his blog about if novell is going to keep the updates for Firefox coming. I asked him because I previously read he had some contacts at novell. If he responds I will post it here.

When I try to install the RPM I get a depenency conflict saying "libdb-4.1.so not available". But when I search for this file with Google it leads me to compat-db-4.1.25-2.1.sh4 "The Berkeley DB database library for Red Hat Linux 7.x compatibility". Do I need to install this file to get libdb-4.1.so, and how do I do that?

Thanks, Fragos You rock!

Hello ionmich

The library libdb-4.1.so is found in CD1/suse/i586/db41-4.1.25-72.i586.rpm
on the CD1 installation CD and will be installed in /usr/lib

you can install it with Yast.
But it's weird that it is not installed already during the installation of linux.

Greetings.

That would be because I did not install from the official CD set but from the downloaded free single CD SUSE offered. Thanks.

I always install firefox from the .gz files.
Just extracted to my /usr/bin/firefox folder and run the shell script firefox.

Wow, 1.0.6 is a lot faster. RPM from site was fine, but I had a conflict with MozillaFirefox-translations package. YaST, for some reason, wouldn't resolve the conflict. Doesn't matter if I say delete or ignore or whatever, it just refuses to install the package. Anyway, opening konsole and issuing a:

sudo rpm -e MozillaFirefox-translations-1.0.4-1.1

followed by:

sudo rpm -Uvh MozillaFirefox-1.0.6-3.1.i586.rpm

did the trick, but YaST is just frickin' stupid at times, IMHO. Note to Novell: The GUI is supposed to be easier than the CLI.