Trying to figure out how to upgrade Mozilla to the latest and greatest release? Here is what you will need to do.Installing Mozilla 1.2 on Red Hat 7.3 is going to be a two step process. The first step will involve upgrading the glibc packages to version 2.3 and the second will involve downloading and upgrading all the mozilla 1.2 rpms. Simple as that.
1. Create a directory somewhere to store all the files you are going to download. I have a temp directory in the home directory in which I store all the programs that I download. Inside this folder I created a directory called mozilla1.2.
2. Here are the packages that I had to install.
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-debug
glibc-devel
3. Go to www.mozilla.org and download the rpms for Red Hat 8. There are two version there, a vanilla flavor without Xft support and an Xft version. I downloaded the vanilla version.
4. Open a Konsole and cd to the directory that you created to store all these files. Once there su to root and upgrade your version of glibc.
root> rpm -Uvh glibc*.rpm
And if everything installs without any errors go onto the next step.
5. Finally you can upgrade your installation of Mozilla;
root> rpm -Uvh mozilla*.rpm
6. if Mozilla is still open, close it down and restart and you should be looking at a shiny new installation of Mozilla 1.2
Enjoy.
If anyone has any questions or comments, please email me.
Mozilla 1.2 has been released. Check out the release notes and download it.http://www.mozilla.org
The GNOME Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the GNOME 2.0.3 Desktop and Developer Platform!
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.0/2.0.3/sources/
Download statistics:
tar.gz: 77M total
tar.bz2: 58M total
The GNOME 2.0.x Desktop and Developer Platform releases are devoted to bugfixes, translations, user interface consistency, and general polish of our major 2.0 release. For more information, please visit our GNOME 2.0 Start page, which includes links to the release notes, download locations for binaries, tarballs and build scripts, and last but not least, screenshots! http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.0/2.0.3/sources/
How to assemble the Unix-side infrastructure needed to create a business-application system to compete with Microsoft-licensed software. Also, a look at reader reaction to the first installment in this series and a call-to-action for reader feedback.http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/1127.cocoon.html
Four major US retailers have thrown their weight behind the anti-DMCA campaign by making it look ridiculous. The bargain hunter site FatWallet.com has been given notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by WalMart, Target, Best Buy and Staples claiming that their sale prices are copyright trade secrets.Aren”t lawyers clever, people? Who”d have thought a price list could be copyright? But they”re an arrangement of facts, a particular arrangement, so maybe they”re art, good heavens. Not that it matters much in this case whether or not the clever lawyers have a case, because FatWallet has complied with the notices, at least for now. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28223.html
If you are looking at getting into Java programming, or you are already java certified, Sun has an excellent IDE available. And the best part is that they have a free version that works the same on windows as it does on Linux.This is the only IDE that I have been using for all of my Java programming, and the one I will continue to use. The two things I like about it are that it makes coding, compiling, and running programs very easy and it is able to do this without needing to create a project. Open a file and assign it to the default project and you can work away. This is a benefit when you are first learning and working on small, single file programs.
The other thing I really like about this program is that it works, and looks, the same on windows and linux. This provides a single, seamless developement application across platforms.
The only downside about the program is that it is entirely built in Java, and as such you will need a fairly fast machine with a good amount of ram to run the program properly.
But, hey, did I mention that they have a free version that you are able to download – the Community Edition.
I have added a new section to the website – Security. Right now it contains a series of links to software and information to help you keep your personal computer secure against viruses and hackers. So far the links are only for windows (Linux doesn’t get viruses, right?!?!). In the future the section will be expanded to include Linux as well as Macs.