Mozilla 1.6 and yum

[Clint Harshaw]

Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:42:49PM -0300, Kevin wrote:
> 
>>Anyone out there have the url for a yum repository that will upgrade my
>>mozilla (1.4) to the latest 1.6 version?
>>Thanks
> 
> 
> Better make sure that doesn't break any applications that depend on
> version 1.4.
> 
> If 1.4.1-18 is working, why switch to 1.6?
> 
> 
> jay

Add the following to /etc/yum.conf to allow yum to upgrade Moz to 1.6:

[mozilla-seamonkey]
name=Mozilla SeaMonkey Releases
baseurl=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/1.6/redhat/1

Important Note: This will break epiphany and galeon, though you could 
search the archive for repo's for versions of them that are compatible 
with the upgraded Moz.

"Why switch to 1.6?"

1.6 has some at least one feature that didn't work for me in 1.4.1-18. 
For instance, the ability to mark the contents of a folder as read is 
very handy -- that feature never seemed to work with me in the default 
version that came with FC1. When you get as many emails from various 
lists as I do, that feature gets used a lot ;-) But it may have worked 
fine for everyone else out of the box. It just wasn't working for me, so 
I figured I'd try out the newer version. It did work for me. None of the 
customization items I had for the previous version got lost. My email 
was just fine. The upgrade was seamless for me via yum (with the 
exception of breaking epiphany and galeon, both of which are fine browsers).

...plus it's nice to have a newer version just to see what it's like!

Clint
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Clint Harshaw  <clint at penguinsolutions.org>