I was partially confused by the lack of a listing for the latest versions of the packages I was looking for, but now understand that this is the reality. I only see old versions of thunderbird and firefox on those servers.
So I'm back to square one, it seems? My only / best option is the manual method of downloading the tar.gz files, uncompressing into a folder, and running the installer file?
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
This is what I have done......
YaST>Software>Change Source of Installation added the following.... For KDE http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9. 1/yast-source/ For SuSE http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/i386/9.1/
Hopefully that should stear you in the right direction. I needed to play around a little because when you add sources it breaks the address into two parts so experimentation was necessary.
Rob
Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 6:54 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: installing firefox
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 06:39 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
I managed to get firefox and thunderbird installed and working at home but am wondering if I've gone about it the "best" way, and am about to repeat the exercise at work today if time allows. I downloaded the tar.gz files, created a folder for each in /usr/bin (seemed to be where plenty of other things get installed), extracted the files there and found the installer file that starts the installation wizard. Once that ran, I had to manually create a desktop icon linked to a file (found by trial and error) and find a suitable icon. I've not bothered to put an entry on the start menu (interesting that neither a menu entry or desktop icon are created for me?).
How could I do this better? I don't see how to use Yast to accomplish an install for a downloaded file. And is it possible to use Yast for the download too - all I can do at the moment is install packages from the install CDs. If I add a local directory under Yast's software source media, being a location I know contains some tar.gz files, those packages aren't found.
Cheers, Roger
as always you should have used yast as a first option. as usual your distro might not have released the latest version.
you now see the difficulties in not using your distro's package installer - lack of integration, not removing previous version etc etc.
yast does not install random .tar.gz files. it installs rpm files supplied by suse. you could add some ftp/http sources into yast's sources, can someone more familiar with this step roger through it please??
