On Wed, November 17, 2004 12:04 pm, Nick Rout said: > 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
correcting that, right click, actions, install with yast http;//www.rout.co.nz/installrpm.png > > 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]> > >
