Newbie trying to upgrade Mozilla 1.4 to 1.8a -- Not succeeding!

[Todd Nelson]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 18:20, Todd Nelson wrote:
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>>Hello from Malaysia,
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>>I'm brand new with Linux (Fedora Core 1) but a long-time user of 
>>Netscape. I'm trying to upgrade the Mozilla 1.4 that came with my Fedora 
>>distro to 1.8a. Being new at Linux, I've searched the Forum and tried 
>>what I found for advice but it's not working for me. I can't seem to 
>>uninstall 1.4 (which is recommended by Mozilla's release notes) using 
>>rpm and -e and -Uvh; and the installer won't create a new directory for 
>>me to install in (usr/local/mozilla). When I tried using the command 
>>line, it said I didn't have permission to create "mozilla" in the 
>>usr/local directory. I am the root and know the password, so ...?
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>What is the uninsatll saying??
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>rpm -e mozilla ??
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If I remember correctly, to try to uninstall each package, I wrote "rpm 
-e mozilla-xxx-1.4.1-17" with xxx = mail, nns, etc.