[TriLUG] "upgrade" to mozilla 1.0 via RPM on Redhat 7.3?

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Thu Jun 13 14:55:18 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 12:10, Jim Thompson wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> Coming from Debian-land, I'm relatively inexperienced
> at some of the features of this whole RPM thing and I
> have a stupid question. Here's the desired result: to
> "upgrade" redhat 7.3's installation of Mozilla to 1.0
> via the published RPMs. I figure this is a pretty
> common task and that lots of people are going to try
> this.
> 
> So I download the whole slew of RPMs from Mozilla.org
> and do a "RPM -Uvh *.rpm" and I get a warning message
> about failed dependencies with Galeon (which depends
> on Mozilla 0.9.x). Being the foolhardy sort, I force
> the issue with "rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm". That works
> and I now have a shiny new Mozilla 1.0 install.

Go get the latest RPMs from:

  http://galeon.sourceforge.net/

and you'll be set.

Ed

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