suse 9.1 seems to have only officially updated firefox to as far as 0.9.3,
however i just remember something volker mentioned a while ago, suse do unofficial project rpms try downloading this rpm and installing it via yast: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.0/9.1-i386/MozillaFirefox-1.0-0.1.i586.rpm i think once downloaded you can right click and choose "install via yast" or similar On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:52:42 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had something similar, so added these as well. It takes a while to > read the package information over a dialup connection shared with other > users, such are the joys of working "in the community" :-( > > 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?? > > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
