On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:17:15PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > With all due respect to Lan, he pointed you to the wrong place, or at > best a misleading place. Short time out while I try to find the > right place for a Firefox RPM to work with FC3. >
Due respect accepted (it ain't much, alas). > Long time out. There doesn't seem to be a right place. > > Do you have yum installed? If so, and everything is properly > configured, you should be able to do (as root): > > # yum update firefox > > and sit back and watch the computer do all the hard stuff. According > to my current yum information, this will install Firefox 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 > . > > I don't remember whether yum came with FC3 or if I had to install it > separately. Worst case you could come to the next InstallFest for > some hands-on guidance. > What Carl said. Especially the installfest. Go. Take your computer. Watch senior Kpluggers do all the hard work. And learn. Here's another thought. If you spend the same amount of time at the installfest upgrading to FC4 you'll automatically get the newer Firefox and lots more too. The decision to upgrade or not is a very personal one. On the one hand, a good argument can be made for not dinking with a working box unless there is a compelling reason. Unwanted things can happen. On the other hand, real progress is made on many fronts between releases, progress that's not always announced. For example, there have been huge and amazing strides in both PostgreSQL and Tcl/Tk between FC3 and FC4, and unless you follow those programs, you wouldn't even know. But if you plan to use either of those (wonderful) programs, make the upgrade before you start. I guess in your position, I'd ask myself if getting the new Firefox was a compelling reason; and I'd also ask myself how much customization and neat stuff I had on my FC3 box outside of /home. If the answer is "compelling enough and not much," I'd go for it. And you never know, some upgrades/reinstalls go smoothly :-) -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
