Michael Chang wrote:
> I'm afraid that is not correct. What do you think a rpm package does?
AFAIK, RPMs are just like brain-dead .debs. 8) Yes, I know what RPMs do,
why they are used, etc. etc.
What you're saying you are doing is using this rpm2targz util to turn
the RPMs into a plain ordinary tarball. What I meant is; by doing so,
you're effectively getting nothing from downloading the RPMs, so you may
as well just download a non-RPM version of Moz.
To illustrate the difference, what you're doing is:
- download the mozilla RPMs
- run rpm2targz to turn the RPMs into tarballs
- extract the tarball to install moz
What you *could* be doing is:
- download the mozilla tarball
- extract the tarball to install moz
Notice the difference? The lack of a) downloading the rpms, and b)
running rpm2targz over it. It's *easier* if you just download the
tarball instead of the RPMs, and it misses the whole rpm2targz step,
which is where the problem *might* be occuring.
Just because you're using a RedHat derivative, it does not mean that you
must use RPMs to install software.
> As for other installations of mozilla, well--lets
> just say I don't make that kind of a mistake because I already checked.
Cool, just though I'd mention it.
> 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,
Um, because the RPM version isn't working for you, and because it's much
easier, as I outlined above?
You can use any of the mozilla-i686pc-linux-* builds on any intel based
Linux distribution, just so long as you have all the runtime
dependencies installed. Personally, I always get the
mozilla-gcc295-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz nightly builds, as IIRC it's
compiled with -O2 turned on, and hence runs a lot faster.
>
> 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.
Maybe you should just not use the RPM build? Trust me, it will make your
life a lot easier.
HTH,
Mike.
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