Preston Crawford wrote:

So how do you get it for SuSE? Apt-get? I can't get apt-get to work and I'm beginning to wonder whether I should just switch to FreeBSD. Part of the reason I paid for a distribution was to get upgrades, etc. Red Hat offers them. Why doesn't SuSE offer these updates and make this easier?

Preston

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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In case no one else has reported it's release, Moz. 1.1 is now available. 'Bug fixes and new features.

Fred

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You do not need apt or RPM or any other gizmo to be able to update your copy of Mozilla. I do it at least twice a week because I download and install what are called "nightlies": the very latest updates containing work-in-progress which may also contain bug fixes AND introduce a new bug or two -- meaning that you install a "nightly" at your own risk (but so far I've had no bad "nightlies".

Go to the Mzoilla site - www.mozilla.org - and go and download the officially released version of the latest Mozilla. Or if you want the latest "nightly" then look in the menu on the left of the screen and select LATEST which will take you to the ftp file list showing the latest "nightly" available for downloading. Select the one which has "..sea.tar.gz" in its name. The file will be around 13.3Mb big so you may want to use something like gftp to download it to make sure that you don't lose any part of the file in case you lose the connection part way thru the download. OK, once you have got the file do this: * open the console and create in your home directory using Midnight Commander (MC) (/home/<your SuSE logon name> a sub-directory called "temp" (no " " of course); * copy the downloaded Mozilla file into this temp directory; * in your /home/<your name> directory you will see 2 sub-directories- 1 is ./mozilla and the other /mozilla (NOTE the "." in front of the first one); * COPY the ./mozilla directory to another part of your system - it doesn't matter where as long as you can get to it because you will be copying it back once the new copy of Mozilla is installed. If you look inside this ./Mozilla sub-directory you will see all your plugins and mail and newsgroups and cache and your current settings, and whatever. You don't want to lose them so after the new copy of Moz is installed you will copy this back. * next, go /home/<your name>/temp directory where the new copy of Mozilla is sitting and run the following on a command line but NOT as a root - do this as a user, as you: gzip -dc <name of the Mozilla file you just downloaded> | tar xvf - and the file will extract and create a directory within temp called "mozilla-installer". Make sure that there are no error messages when this has been done. If there are no error messages, proceed to the next part; if error messages then go back and get another, good copy of Mozilla; * if no error messages, DELETE the ./mozilla and the /mozilla sub-dirs in your /home/<your name> directory. The new Mozilla will be installed in /mozilla and you will copy back the ./mozilla after the installation is completed. NOTE at this point that you will not find a /mozilla sub-directory in your /home/<your name> - this is because mozilla automatically installs itself in /usr/local/<something-or-other> but you will install it under your /home directory so that it is easier to work with from now on. The /mozilla sub-directory only contains the executables, and you need to replace these whenever you upadate Mozilla so that no old bits are left over to interfere with any new bits; * after you have deleted the ./mozilla (make sure that you copied it beforehand! -see above) and /mozilla, go into the /home/<your name>/temp/mozilla-installer sub-directory and run on the command line "/.mozilla-installer" - and this will install the new copy of Mozilla. When the installer starts you have the choice of using Custom install and also select the directory where Mozilla will be installed. It is here that you should choose the new location to be /home/<your name>/mozilla and not use the default location (but this is up to you, course). Also, by selecting Custom install you can omit installing the Chatzilla and the bit about reporting any bugs - I always deselct these as I have no need for them. But, again, it is up to you; * after the installer finishes, and Mozilla is installed, Mozilla will actually execute and will ask you if it should convert the existing Profile files. Answer YES. Then when you actually get the Mozilla screen (which will be a window in the top left side) EXIT Mozilla; * go back into MC and DELETE the ./mozilla sub-dir just created during the installation; copy BACK the ./mozilla sub-dir that you put somewhere at the beginning of this exercise. The newly installed Mozilla will pick this up and you will not lose any settings/messages etc; * exit the console and get back to your Desktop; right click on the Desktop and select Create a Link to an Application; fill out the name as Mozilla, then for Execute select /home/<your name>/mozilla/mozilla. For the icon, there is an icon for Mozilla in the main icon repository- it is towards the end of the list, under the lower case "m". Click OK when you have finished with creating the Link, and you will have an icon on your Desktop which will run your new upadated Mozilla; * click on the icon to run Mozilla and do all the necessary selection of options/preferences- some will be totally new and some may not have transferred properly from your original (older) Mozilla. If anything goes wrong, you still have your original ./mozilla saved somewhere to fall back on. That's all there is to it. And I do this, as I said, twice a week. No drama - and I always a copy of all of my messages etc saved (unless I am not paying attention and delete my ./mozilla before I save it as I have done on a few occasions :-)). I hope I haven't left out any steps or stated something incorrectly. If I have, point this out to me. Cheers.