upgrade firefox question

[Michael S. Dunsavage]

I find that rpm's still have lots of dependacy problems and it's not 
intelligent enough to go out and resolve them without some 
intervention.   So a source tarball is still in my favor.

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Bob Smith wrote:
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>>Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>>>Why not just use the RPM?  There's one for Fedora Core 2 at at
>>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/firefox-0.9.1-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm.
>>>The obvious change to the above URL will get you the one for FC1.
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>>Actually, there are times when you might want a parallel installation,
>>such as checking backwards browser compatability.  Granted, it's not as
>>much of an issue today as a couple of years ago, but for some situations
>>it does come in handy.
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>Of course.  I have an installation from tarball of gcc 2.95.3 in
>/usr/local for exactly that reason.  But there seems to be a tendency on
>the part of some users to grab the tarball first and ask questions later.
>That seems to me to defeat the whole point of having RPMs to begin with.
>So unless there is a good reason not to, I try to recommend RPMs over
>tarballs whenever possible (and checkinstall when it's not possible).
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Michael S. Dunsavage