Help needed with mozilla (FC2) after RH update run

[James McCarron]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 02:43, jmccarro wrote:
> 
>>... Now, the mail client is completely missing from Mozilla. Can
>>someone please help by telling me how to get it back?
> 
> 
> You need the mozilla-mail package installed. Do you have it?
> 
> rpm -q mozilla-mail
> 
> If that returns nothing, try getting and installing the RPM manually:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/x86_64/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.x86_64.rpm
> 
> (or a local mirror may be faster).
> 
> Paul.

Hello Paul:

Thank you very much for your reply. When I try the command you give 
above, I get the following output:

[pts/4][23][16:46:24]localhost% rpm -q mozilla-mail
mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0

This seems to indicate that the system thinks this package is present. I 
also see these files are present (I'm not sure what to conclude from 
this, though):

/var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.i386.hdr
/var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.x86_64.hdr

Is it likely, or even possible, that when I ran the update facility, it 
tried to install this package but the installation failed in some way? 
There is no messenger.jar in /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/chrome/, although 
the directory /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/components/ does appear to 
contain files related to mail (guessing from their names).

Now, I did manage to build a complete Mozilla, including mail, from the 
source distribution (downloaded from mozilla.org). It seems to work okay 
(I'm using it now to write this), except that the system (desktop) does 
not appear know about it.

Thanks,

James