The main reason I want to use the SuSE RPMs is that I can't be bothered to build Mozilla from source, cos it takes the best part of a day... I need to have the development header files (which you simply do not get with the binary tarballs) because with each new release of Mozilla, Nautilus and more importantly Galeon need to be rebuilt. All this on top of the fact that I actually have work to do (shock I know, but true) and you can see the benefit of just pointing my FTP client at ftp.suse.com grabbing them from /pub/projects/mozilla and issuing a quick rpm command. So, returning to my original question, and hoping a SuSE employee reads this, will SuSE be producing mozilla and mozilla-devel RPMs for 7.1 - 7.3?
Why do you need RPMs? Download the small installer, mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.96-installer.tar.gz, and point it at the /opt/mozilla directory rather than the /usr/local/bin directory it wants to install to. It detects and deletes the old version automatically. Though pin reports that my mozilla version according to the RPM database is 0.81, the drawback to this approach. :-) -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 7.x) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 0.99.2 (RC2) NEW: Advogato diary at www.advogato.org/person/riggwelter
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