Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <hylton@global.co.za> [01-20-05 13:49]:
My biggest fear is that, as I do not know how to compile and am really a mouse tickler, I do not want to install a later version of Mozilla or OOo, find it doesn't work and then be unable to point and click to un-install it so my system is left as though I had never installed the 'offending' app. Mozilla and OOo are the two most crucial at the moment as they are helping me look for and apply for employment, and I will not have that help destroyed.
Mozilla and OOo are 'static' installations. They do not require lib's off your system. Note: If you wish java support, you must have java rte installed on your system. Tnx Patrick.
It certainly eases my mind about being able to upgrade one of the two packages and not break the other. When you say they do not require lib's, I'm assuming that they do not share any common dependency files that might be changed if the program was updated, therefore allowing the reverse upgrade(downgrade)? Can I therefore assume, in a simplistic way, that if I was updating KDE from 3.1 to 3.3 they would both be affected because they rely on the X configuration being a certain way so thy can work. -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================