Firefox for Fedora
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 09:58:37 UTC 2005
On 12/27/05, Jack Craig <jcraig at brocade.com> wrote:
>
>
> this approach may not be as elegant as the yum based install,
> but ihave been updating FF versions as they come out, keep each in a
> peer directory.
>
> its true i have never tried installing a lower rev after up revev'ing,
> but i would expect it should work.
>
> one last detail, after the install, open the properties on the
> FF launcher and make sure the path is to the new location,
> not the last one.
>
> hth,jackc...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Dotan Cohen
> Sent: Tue 12/27/2005 9:03 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Cc:
> Subject: Firefox for Fedora
>
> I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked
> for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in
> Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some
> concerns that I would like some input on:
> 1) If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox.
> Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway?
> 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side?
> 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to
> start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by
> side? If not, how do I correct it?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
Thanks. Firefox 1.5 had no problems installing next to it's older
version. I will update the launchers and keep the old FF in there.
This was easier than I thought!
Dotan Cohen
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