Chris Johnston

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.