Mozilla 1.3 install

[Gro$$]

Ok so I downloaded mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2.i386.rpm from mozilla's site along with everything else (i.e. devel, nspr, chat, mail, and more from the site). I tried to install it from command line as su and I can't because mozilla 1.0.1-26 (the browser that came with Red Hat 8) has to many dependancies and I cannot remove them either, because other applications are linked to them. I tried

rpm -i mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2.i386.rpm

which didn't work and then I tried

rpm -U mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2.i386.rpm

to upgrade and it still didn't work. finally I tried

rpm -F mozilla-1.3-0_gtk2.i386.rpm

and it didn't work. Anyone got any ideas?? It would be a great help. Thanks. And I would like to use the rpms and not have to compile, but if nothing else will work then i'll compile my own from the source.

-Gro$$

[LrngTheHardWay]

rpm -Uvh <path>*.rpm, IIRC

[Icarus]

I've always taken their tarball and extracted it to /usr/lib/mozilla and made a symlink from /usr/bin/mozilla to /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla...

For some reason whe I upgraded to RH 9 which uses Mozilla1.2.1 (located in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1) it didn't remove the link so I am still using 1.3...no complaits though :)

[Gro$$]

well the -Uvh <path>.rpm, IIRC didn't work so I think i'll compile the source and go from there. Any other ideas are welcome too. Thanks.

-Gro$$

[redcape]

You cannot just say 'it did not work', you must give the error messages if you expect a solution.

If the worst comes to the worst you can always force RPM to install it, which might break your dependecy tree, but is still better than installing from source.

[Phys1c5]

ok it looks like you have a dependency issue with the mozilla rpms. You seem to just be installing the mozilla rpm and not the others, where for mozilla-newversion to be installed, you must have all of the other mozilla-newversion packages as to not break the dependency tree. from the directory you downloaded the mozilla1.3 gtk2, download all of the packages in that directory and save them all into a dedicated local directory. after that, open up a root shell, or su, and then use the rpm -U command, like this: rpm -U *.rpm, or rpm -U *.rpm --nodeps. If you try to install ony one package, you will be greeted by a league of dependency errors.

[Gro$$]

ok well originally I did try to install all the packages in the dependency tree, however each one needed another. So that got me nowhere. I think with -Uvh I had the same problem. I just put all the rpms in one directory and now I'm trying

rpm -U *.rpm

After I cd to the directory. So far no response, which could mean that its installing all the packages and dealing with dependancies. Hope it works. Thanks for all your help guys.

[filp]

Probably a better command woudl have been

"rpm -Fvh *"

Then you only upgrade the packages that were installed in the first place.

Filp.

[Gro$$]

Ok so now I just feel dumb. I installed the rpms correctly and I did a locate for mozilla and if found it. But, how do I run version 1.3 and not 1.0.1 which came with Red Hat 8? I've looked in my /mozilla directory and found nothing. I tried running mozilla from terminal and it gave me version 1.0.1 and not 1.3. So some linux god want to help me locate version 1.3 so I can run it??

[Gro$$]

Nevermind all I had to do was close all of my open mozilla windows and open them again. Thanks for all your help guys.