upgrade firefox question

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Bob Smith wrote:

> Actually, you can overwrite an old installation, or create a parallel
> installation, but upgrades are questionable.  Generally, it appears that
> the tar.gz bundles from Mozilla are complete packages.  If you do a
> parallel install, then you can import old boomarks, etc., which is often
> a safer way to install.

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.

>
> -Bob
>
> Stephen W wrote:
>
> >Using RH 9.0
> >
> >Downloading Firefoc 0.9 (I am presently using 0.8).
> >
> >I know that with an RPM I can use the -U to tell the
> >RPM to Update the existing program.
> >
> >What happens when I use the *tar.gz file of firefox?
> >Will it automatically simpley UPGRADE?  Or Overwrite
> >existing?  Or create a parallell install?
> >
> >How do I handle such a situation?
> >
> >Thanks
> >StephenW
> >
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		Matthew Saltzman

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