Trouble upgrading Mozilla

[JimD]

I may be breaking a rule posting this -- I already posted it as part of my earlier thread. It's a different question from my earlier topic, and I noticed that the thread wasn't being read anymore...

I'm trying to upgrade Mozilla, current versioin 0.9.2.1. I found an rpm package, mozilla-1.2.1-2.i586.rpm, but when I type the command...

rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.2.1-2.i586.rpm

the package does not upgrade. There are many messages that scroll across the screen too fast to read (although I saw "failed dependencies" and a list of files as long as my arm). I tried piping the output to | more and | less, but neither would hold the information on the screen or allow me to page or arrow up. Then I tried...

rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.2.1-2.i586.rpm > errorlog.txt

but the file is empty.

Any advice on what to do next? I ran "locate" on mozilla, and found so many directories and files, I don't know whether to try unistalling, or deleting, or what. Here's a consolidated list of some directories and files found by "locate". Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!

/etc/X11/applnk/Internet/mozilla-ns-upgrade.desktop
/etc/X11/applnk/Internet/mozilla-profile.desktop
/etc/X11/applnk/Internet/mozilla.desktop
/usr/bin/mozilla
/usr/bin/nautilus-mozilla-content-view
/usr/bin/kmozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome
/usr/lib/mozilla/components
/usr/lib/mozilla/res
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults
/usr/lib/mozilla/icons
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/searchplugins
/usr/lib/libkmozillapart.so.0
/usr/lib/libkmozillapart.la
/usr/lib/libkmozillapart.so
/usr/lib/libkmozillapart.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/pixmaps/mozilla-icon.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/nautilus-release-notes/C/mozilla.html
/usr/share/gnome/ui/nautilus-mozilla-ui.xml
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps/mozilla.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/mozilla.png
/usr/share/oaf/Nautilus_View_mozilla.oaf
/usr/share/services/kmozilla.desktop
/home/jim/.nautilus/thumbnails/file:%2F%2F%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fmozilla
/home/jim/.nautilus/thumbnails/file:%2F%2F%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fmozilla/splash.aa.xpm.png
/home/jim/.mozilla
/home/jim/.mozilla/appreg
/home/jim/.mozilla/default
/home/jim/.mozilla/default/w2lnzgmf.slt/cookies.txt
/home/jim/.mozilla/default/w2lnzgmf.slt/40502090.s
/home/jim/.galeon/mozilla
/home/jim/.galeon/mozilla/galeon
/home/jim/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/US
/home/jim/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/US/chrome
/home/jim/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/cookies.txt
/home/jim/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.2.1-sea.tar.gz
/home/jim/mozilla-1.2.1-2.i586.rpm

[lahook]

i would download the mozilla installer tar package. run the shell script and change the the name of mozilla to mozilla1.2 when it ask where you want to install it. then you can remove the old mozilla later

[knute]

rpm has the --pipe option that can pipe the output to a command.

That would show you the messages that you missed if you used less or something. I suppose you could pipe the output of less to a file even. :)

HTH

[JimD]

I haven't tried the tar install yet. I'm worried about Mozilla's recommendation to delete the old version.

I finally got a listing of my dependency errors (below). How do I resolve these? Thanks!

<U --replacepkgs --test /home/jim/mozilla-1.2.1-2.i586.rpm;echo RESULT=$?
error: failed dependencies:
mozilla-nspr = 1.2.1-2 is needed by mozilla-1.2.1-2
libnspr4.so is needed by mozilla-1.2.1-2
libplc4.so is needed by mozilla-1.2.1-2
libplds4.so is needed by mozilla-1.2.1-2
mozilla = 0.9.2.1 is needed by galeon-0.11.3-2
mozilla = 0.9.2.1-2 is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.2.1-2
mozilla = 0.9.2.1-2 is needed by mozilla-psm-0.9.2.1-2
libnspr4.so is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
libnspr4.so is needed by galeon-0.11.3-2
libnspr4.so is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-2.2-2
libnspr4.so is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.2.1-2
libnspr4.so is needed by mozilla-psm-0.9.2.1-2
libplc4.so is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
libplc4.so is needed by galeon-0.11.3-2
libplc4.so is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-2.2-2
libplc4.so is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.2.1-2
libplc4.so is needed by mozilla-psm-0.9.2.1-2
libplds4.so is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
libplds4.so is needed by galeon-0.11.3-2
libplds4.so is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-2.2-2
libplds4.so is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.2.1-2
libplds4.so is needed by mozilla-psm-0.9.2.1-2
RESULT=1