How to get rid of Firefox 0.8

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:41:05 -0400, Beartooth wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:26:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >> > It's so easy to install prebuilt Firefox packages from http://fedora.us
> >> 
> >> The two (0.8 and 0.9) at
> >> 
> >> http://www.fedora.us/pkglists/fedora-1-stable.html 
> >> 
> >> both say .src.rpm -- which iiuc puts them beyond my ability to cope.
> > 
> > Nah, those package lists are broken, and *I* can't do anything about it.
> > 
> > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
> > 
> > Or browse the master site manually here:
> > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/
> 
> OK -- after somebody pointed out that I needed rm -rf (which I'd've
> sworn I'd tried before rmdir) and it worked, I got both 
> 
> firefox-0.9.1-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm
> 
> and 
> 
> firefox-0.9.3-0.fdr.4.i386.rpm
> 
> from there as well as 
> 
> firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
> 
> and 
> 
> firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz from mozilla.org.
> 
> I'd a lot rather use rpms than tarballs -- if I can. Now I'm wondering
> about that "*.fdr.3.*" resp. "*.fdr.4.*" in those rpms. Are those release
> numbers, or what? Is either of them going to work with FC1?? Or do I have
> to go untar one of the tarballs and hope for the best?

You've found the rpms in the fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable directory, which
means they are made for Fedora Core 1. Even better, the same rpms also
work on Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3 Test 1. And yes, the number
after .fdr is a package release number.