[PLUG] Mozilla Upgrade

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Fri Aug 30 22:57:41 UTC 2002


On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Dan Young wrote: 
> Robbert van Andel said:
> --snipped--
> > Anyone out
> > there have an idea that I can use to upgrade Mozilla and deal with the
> > dependencies.  I'm guessing I'm missing a switch on the rpm command.
> 
> First, do a:
> 
> rpm -qa | grep mozilla
> 
> to see what mozilla packages you have installed.
> 
> Then d/l the updated ones to match. Followed by
> 
> rpm -Uvh mozilla*1.1-0.i386.rpm
> 
> That will match all of the mozilla rpms you d/l'ed that are v1.1-0 and
> will update all of the mozilla rpms at once. If multiple packages are
> dependant on each other, you have to upgrade them all at once, rather than
> one at a time.
> 
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District

...and if you then get...

error: failed dependencies:
        mozilla = 0.9.9 is needed by galeon-1.2.0-7

...grab the Red Hat rawhide version of galeon from...

ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/galeon-1.2.5-6.i386.rpm

...and...

[root at kippered i386]# rpm -Uvh galeon-1.2.5-6.i386.rpm mozilla*1.1-0.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:mozilla-nspr           ########################################### [ 12%]
   2:mozilla                ########################################### [ 25%]
   3:galeon                 ########################################### [ 37%]
   4:mozilla-chat           ########################################### [ 50%]
   5:mozilla-devel          ########################################### [ 62%]
   6:mozilla-mail           ########################################### [ 75%]
   7:mozilla-nss            ########################################### [ 87%]
   8:mozilla-psm            ########################################### [100%]

Sandy
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