On Mon April 17 2006 2:22 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:
Being a newbie and not knowing about the innards of how GNU/Linux work and the relationship (or lack thereof) I have a fear of installing something from TAR, not knowing if it will/will not run with my other apps. I am much more secure knowing I'll install an RPM and it will work the way it should and that there won't be issues down the road, for which I"m completely unprepared to handle. I'm sure others feel the same way.
what happens ( at least it happened to me with Firefox) is that I installed it from the tar as me ( a user) and I installed the RPM as root. Now, depending on what button I click, or what menu I use I get either 1.5.0.1 or 1.5.0.2 gets confusing!! Last time I tried removing all & starting from scratch I had so many crap files left floating around, that I got errors when I tried to restart FireFox. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800