Problem updating Mozilla with up2date

Sat Jan 3 00:40:08 UTC 2004

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:14:09 -0500, John Li wrote:

> Thanks--using the command 'rpm --query --requires galeon' does show that
> it requires Mozilla 1.2.1 (Epoch 35).  Questions:
> 
> 1)  Isn't that a bizarre requirement, to require usage of one particular
> epoch?

No, not at all. If the dependency is versioned, including the Epoch
makes sense.

The question remains, how you could upgrade Mozilla to 1.4.1 when the
installed Galeon requires an older version of Mozilla.

> 2) It is supspicious that this requirement is there--I just upgraded to
> Fedora
> from a fairly recent new install of RH9, and other folks evidently do
> not
> have this problem.  How could this have gotten there?  Can other
> software or malware modify such requirements?  (Additionally, these
> incompatible versions already exist on the computer!)

You could upgrade Galeon to 1.3.10, e.g. with the package from
this fedora.us mirror:

http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.testing/

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