VDQ : Firefox, Fedora -- and yum?

[Paul Howarth]

Beartooth wrote:
> I run FC4 on four (sometimes five), and have just had to re-install it on
> one I had managed to foul up (another story); so I *think* this is right : 
> 
> FC4 not only installs Ffx by default, but makes it the default browser;
> but to update Ffx you have to go through nine yards of tarballs, and
> things to fierce to mention to MS users, most of whom haven't heard of
> tarballs and would either fall asleep or climb the walls in panic if you
> tried to tell them. 
> 
> Yet apparently Firefox appeals to MS users.
> 
> "yum update firefox" certainly doesn't work, at least not with the default
> configurations on a new install. Nor on any install of mine.
> 
> Need these things be?
> 
> Is there a way I've missed to make "yum update firefox" work? Is there
> hope it will in FC5 -- or even FC6? 

"yum update firefox" works fine for me on FC4.

Is the problem that you are seeing that firefox is not being updated to 
version 1.5? The reason for that is that no official Fedora package for 
Firefox 1.5 on FC4 has been released (at least not yet). That's why yum 
doesn't pick it up.

The MS client uses a completely different upgrade path (it goes directly 
to the "home" of firefox rather than via the operating system "vendor"), 
which is why it behaves differently there.

As for why there isn't a Firefox 1.5 upgrade for FC4, I don't know the 
answer.

Paul.