Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry wrote:
> Newbie here with SuSE 9.0 Personal edition and Linux in general.
>
> What is the best way to replace the Mozilla 1.4 that comes with the SuSE
> install CD to the newer version of 1.6 and have it work as 1.4 does. 

In case there are people who want to use mozilla "bleeding edge", this 
is a script that installs automatically, every day, the nightly build.

Put it in /etc/cron.daily and don't forget to
chmod u+x /etc/cron.daily/instmozilla

#!/bin/sh
# get mozilla from a mirror that carries this file
#ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
wget --quiet \
ftp://insert.favorite.mirror.here/path/to/nightly/build/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

# sometimes the tarball is broken, in that case, won't erase the working
# version that we have
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
  # tarball is not broken, unpacking went well
  # erase the old version and the tarball
  rm -rf /opt/mozilla mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
  # move the new version in place
  mv mozilla /opt
  # create symlinks to plugins
  cd /opt/mozilla/plugins
  ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
  ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/flashplayer.xpt
  ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/nppdf.so
  ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/raclass.zip
  ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/rpnp.so
else
  # unpacking went wrong, just delete the bad tarball
  rm mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
fi