--- Lief Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:37 PM 6/28/05 -0700, you wrote: > >Lief Hendrickson wrote: > >>Can anyone tell me where Firefox is installed > under Fedora 3? Is there > >>some way to check properties on a launch icon to > find out where its > >>executable file is located? > > > >Run 'which firefox' at a prompt. > > > >>I just installed Fedora 3. It comes with Firefox > 1.0. I downloaded the > >>Firefox 1.04 installer. Where do I move this file > so it will install > >>over the existing Firefox? > > > >Don't. You have installed Fedora Core 3, but > you've missed a very > >important step -- applying the latest software > updates, including bugfixes > >and security patches. Read up a bit on the 'yum' > program, or just try > >running 'yum update' with your machine connected to > the internet. > > > >You'll find that Firefox v1.04 is available for > Core 3 from the Fedora > >project as an update. You don't need to use the > installer that you downloaded. > > > >That said, if you in the future wish to replace a > program that was > >provided by your distribution, I recommend you look > for a RPM package. If > >you cannot find one, then remove the > Fedora-provided RPM before installing > >the new software. In the case of Firefox, you > would run 'rpm -e > >firefox'. That will uninstall the software > entirely. > > > >-- > >Joshua Penix > http://www.binarytribe.com > >Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & > Network Consulting > > > Before seeing this message I used the update icon > ("Red Hat Notification > Tool") at the upper left of the main screen and > excluded all packages > except firefox then ran update. After fumbling > around a bit, it worked - I > then pened Firefox to find it as version 1.0.4. Does > the yum command work > the same as the Red Hat Notification Tool? > > Next, per above email, I went to a terminal window > and typed "yum update" > to get other updates. It took several hours to > complete. I am running dual > boot, and efore doing the yum update, there were two > choices at boot - > windows and linux. Now there are three choices - > two of them are > linux. The two linux choices (if I got the numbers > right) are: > Fedora Core 2.6.9-1.667 > Fedora Core 2.6.11-1.39_FC3 > > Does this mean I have two independent linux systems > now? Would the > application upgrades work with either core? > > Thanks > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > Yum update will update your kernel, too. You now have a choice of which kernel to use with your linux system. They aren't independent - same system, just choice of exact kernel to use. I suspect that eventually, you will upgrade some component that requires the later kernels, and for that item, won't be compatable with the earlier versions. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
