On Tuesday 14 August 2001 04:56 pm, Ola Lid�n wrote:
> I have used Mozilla since milestone 4 and now I am using 0.9.3. Today
> I discovered that it is possible to get an RPM package of Mozilla
> 0.9.3 from cooker. Can someone tell me the differens between the
> 0.9.3 build from Mozilla and the RPM package from cooker. I know the
> differens in installation and so on. Is the RPM from cooker a better
> choise for mandrake 8.0, and if so why.  I can not get java to work
> with mozilla. 

   LM 8.0 comes with java.  It's in /usr/bin/java  and is supplied by 
the open source version, kaffe.  If you use cooker mdk rpm's for 
mozilla you don't even need to set it up, java will already be enabled, 
as it is with Konqueror.
 
   Out of preference, I get the cooker mozilla src.rpm and --rebuild 
it. That will provide all the various mozilla rpm's and they'll be 
optimized for your system. Plus when you install them, menu entires are 
made for you also. Rpms also make it easy to go back to the previous 
mozilla version if you choose to.  They also give you the option to not 
install mozilla mail and/or irc if you don't want those. 

   Vanilla source tarballs are not the way too go when Mandrake rpms 
are available, for anything. It would be better to use RedHat rpms than 
generic source.  They'll at least install to the same directories that 
Mandrake normally uses, and like all rpms, are easy to remove.   YMMV

   Cooker usually has rpms for mozilla, like most things, within a day 
or two of the latest version release. Most likely reasons it might be 
takin longer is 'cause they're testing Mandrake compatibility, or the 
viability or the version itself, or the mirror you connected to hasn't 
been updated yet. In the case of moz 9.3, they were there the next day. 
-- 
Tom Brinkman                       Galveston Bay

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