upgrade firefox question

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Jul 19 18:34:42 UTC 2004


On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:49:42 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Bob Smith wrote:
> 
> > Actually, you can overwrite an old installation, or create a parallel
> > installation, but upgrades are questionable.  Generally, it appears that
> > the tar.gz bundles from Mozilla are complete packages.  If you do a
> > parallel install, then you can import old boomarks, etc., which is often
> > a safer way to install.
> 
> Why not just use the RPM?  There's one for Fedora Core 2 at at
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/firefox-0.9.1-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm.
> The obvious change to the above URL will get you the one for FC1.

Save yourself the extra download. Both, FC1 and FC2, rpms are the same.

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