seamonkey update in FC5 is broken?

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 16:44:48 UTC 2007


On 1/6/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:49, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Anyone else running FC5 finding that the latest seamonkey update is
> > completely broken?  The RPM claims to have a /usr/bin/seamonkey, yet
> > its never installed.
>
> I did FC5 updates last night, which said it was going to replace mozilla, and
> among other updates install seamonkey.
>
> rpm -ql seamonkey  shows it as /usr/bin/mozilla (shell script) , and sure
> enough the shell script is now referring to mozilla-seamonkey.

Ah, yes your'e right.  It boggles my mind why they did it in this
fashion.  It used to be /usr/bin/seamonkey, and that no longer works
without hacking in a symlink to /usr/bin/mozilla.  Plus it broke all
the plugins which used to be in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.x/plugins.
*sigh*

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