Michael Gratton wrote:
> Michael Chang wrote:
>
> >
> > Nope, still will not work--after reinstall. I don't have the right rpm
> > version to install the rpm's provided by mozilla, so I used the rpm2targz
> > tool to convert the rpm's into tarballs that I expand in the root
> > directory.
>
> Considering then that you're not *really* using the packages, you may as
> well just download and use the non-RPM version.
>
> If you get one of the installer builds, you can select what you want
> installed and pick a place to put it, which is what you're effectively
> doing now. Give that a try.
>
> You may also want to check that you don't already have a version of Moz
> located elsewhere, which is accidently being started. On my Debian box,
> Nautilus requires the packaged version of Mozilla, but I also keep a
> recent nightly installed for general use. So if I just run "mozilla",
> I'll get the packaged version; I need to explicitly specify
> "/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla" to get the right version.
>
> You may be seeing something similar.
>
> Mike.
>
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I'm afraid that is not correct. What do you think a rpm package does? What do
you think a rpm package contains? The rpm2targz utility just takes the rpm
package and expands it into a tarball. If you know what you are doing and you
have the correct files installed, then just unpacking the rpm into a tarball
and install it. The rpm just checks for preinstallation conditions and
installs the files to a default setting or as you noted into a user defined
location. The rpm package already contains the compiled version of v0.9.3.
Environment conditions, system arch, and default conditions, and other program
specific variables are set during compilation not rpm package expansion. So
the tarball is equivalent to the rpm package--if you know what you are doing.
The only major difference b/w the tarball created and the rpm package is the
preinstallation checks. As for other installations of mozilla, well--lets
just say I don't make that kind of a mistake because I already checked. As
for the non-rpm builds well, why use them when I know the tarball will work.
The only other non-rpm version of mozilla that I know of is PPC, but I don't
use Japanese linux. I use TLW 6.2, which is a redhat based, so I chose redhat
6.0.
On another note, when a user starts mozilla a hidden directory is created and
on a hunch I checked to see if my hidden directory contained directories for
mail and news--and guess what they do! Appearently, the mail client is
installed, but I just can't access the program. I am also told that the base
builld during the compilation of mozilla is base/default(mail client excluded)
and complete(mail client included) needs to be specifically set during
compilation. I am wondering is the rpm package was compiled wrong. But,
I think that is not possible. I am sure mozilla tests the rpm builds that
people submit or they build the rpm packages themselves.
Most interesting problem. I just love software testing. Let the tesing
begin.
MC
