Installing newest release of Mozilla

[chadm1967]

Hi all,

I wanted to upgrade to the newest release of Mozilla (0.9.6) on my Red Hat 7.2 box but noticed that they are not offering rpm's for this release. I'm not real good at installing from source. What would be the best way to do this? Will this upgrade my current version or will I need to remove it first?

Thanks for the help!

[demian]

The easiest way is to use their talkback net-installer. Just download the installer file and execute it. Then chose the components and the directory you want to install it to. Be sure to chose a location where you have write access to or run the installer as root. After the installation is completed you can run the new installtion with /your/install/path/mozilla. Your old version will remain fully functional. In case you don't want it anymore and it's installed as part of RH remove it with the packaging tool you use. It won't effect the new installation.

[bdg1983]

If there is a tar.gz of Mozilla, then try building a binary rpm.

rpm -tb package_name.tar.gz

And if successful, just install the resulting rpm. The built rpm will be in /usr/src/<your distro>/RPMS/i386

[Jomboni]

There are rpms for .9.6. I downloaded one off of mozilla's site.

[Psycho]

Just an fyi, when I installed 9.6 with the net-installer having write access to the target location was not enough. The install failed, I don't know what else it needed.

Being behind a spare Linux box firewall I just did it as root to cure it.

--glenn